Table 1.
Hardware configuration and performance measures of the computer used for testing the different software packages.
| Device | Processor cores | Memory (GB) | Single precision (GFLOPS) | Double precision (GFLOPS) | Memory bandwidth (GB/s) | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-3770K | 4 (8 with hyper threading) | 16 | 1 core: 56, 4 cores: 224 | 1 core: 28, 4 cores: 112 | 26 | 330 |
| Nvidia GTX 680 | 1536 | 4 | 3090 | 129 | 192 | 500 |
| AMD Radeon 7970 | 2048 | 3 | 3790 | 947 | 264 | 500 |
A Linux operating system was used (CentOS 6.4 64 bit) with an OCZ 128 GB SSD hard drive. The theoretical performance for single (32 bit floats) and double (64 bit floats) precision is given as giga floating point operations per second (GFLOPS). Prices are from newegg.com and should be seen as approximate.