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. 2010 Aug 23;1(2):658–675. doi: 10.1364/BOE.1.000658

Table 3.

Effect of absorption grid resolution (dr, dz) and grid dimensions (nr, nz) on simulation time, simulating 107 photon packets in the thick homogeneous slab model. The GPU-MCML results were measured on the GTX 480 GPU

dr and dz (cm) nr nz GPU-MCML (s) CPU-MCML (s) Speedup
1 1 1 23.5 21817 928x
0.1 10 10 23.2 22708 979x
0.01 100 100 26.0 22624 870x
0.001 1000 1000 31.5 22813 724x