dglenn wrote:
> 
> Jason Daly wrote:
> > On 05/18/2011 05:14 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The only problem that I personally heard about is about the slow transfer 
> > > speed to/from GPU memory on Fermi cards. DMA transfers are said to be 
> > > slower than on GTX 2xx hardware. I haven't seen anything related to 
> > > computing.
> > > 
> > 
> > I think it's specifically GPU->host memory transfers that are slow.  The 
> > other direction is OK, as is the computation speed.  The thread on the 
> > OpenGL forums has the details, and someone posted a small program that 
> > does timing tests and illustrates the issue pretty well.
> > 
> > http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=284065&page=1
> > 
> > --"J"
> > 
> 
> 
> I looked at the link you gave and downloaded the program that was the (the 
> 4th revision of it) and tried on my GTX 460 and an old 8800 GT and compared 
> it to the results that was posted and something does not add up with the test 
> program!

Most people there compare GTX2xx hardware and Fermi hardware. You are comparing 
G80 and Fermi hardware.

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