Difference between Stream Processors and CUDA cores?

asim1999 · January 28, 2015

AMD has Stream Processors and Nvidia has CUDA cores, what is the difference (if any)?

Airwolf1984 · January 28, 2015

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/15426-difference-between-stream-processors-and-cuda-cores/

Aniallation · January 28, 2015

AMD has Stream Processors and Nvidia has CUDA cores, what is the difference (if any)?

They are different architectures and shouldn't be used to compare AMD against Nvidia but rather different AMD cards against one another and different Nvidia cards against one another.

Briggsy · January 28, 2015

one of the biggest differences (that I am aware of) is that each cuda core is a fully capable shader core, while AMD stream processors are clustered in groups with 4 out of 5 being fully operational and the 5th being highly tuned for complex mathematics. I'm going from memory base on an old PCPer podcast from a long ways back, but I'm sure its still relevant.