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Performance Characteristics

Performance characteristics and benchmarks for DotCompute.

🚧 Documentation In Progress - Performance characteristics guide is being developed.

Overview

Measured Performance (v0.2.0-alpha):

  • CPU SIMD: 3.7x faster (Vector Add: 2.14ms → 0.58ms)
  • CUDA GPU: 21-92x speedup (benchmarked on RTX 2000 Ada, CC 8.9)
  • Memory: 90% allocation reduction through pooling
  • Startup: Sub-10ms with Native AOT

CPU Performance

SIMD Operations

TODO: Document CPU SIMD performance:

  • AVX2 performance metrics
  • AVX512 performance metrics
  • NEON performance metrics
  • Vector operation benchmarks

Scalar Performance

TODO: Explain scalar operation performance

GPU Performance

NVIDIA GPU Performance

TODO: Document NVIDIA GPU metrics:

  • Compute Capability-based performance
  • Memory bandwidth utilization
  • Latency characteristics

AMD GPU Performance

TODO: Explain AMD GPU performance

Intel GPU Performance

TODO: Document Intel GPU metrics

Apple Silicon Performance

TODO: Explain Metal GPU performance

Memory Performance

Memory Bandwidth

TODO: Document bandwidth metrics

Memory Latency

TODO: Explain latency characteristics

Memory Transfer Performance

TODO: Document host-device transfer speeds

Scalability

Single GPU Performance

TODO: Document single GPU scaling

Multi-GPU Performance

TODO: Explain multi-GPU scaling:

  • Weak scaling
  • Strong scaling
  • Communication overhead

Overhead Analysis

Kernel Launch Overhead

TODO: Document launch overhead

Memory Allocation Overhead

TODO: Explain allocation cost

Synchronization Overhead

TODO: Document synchronization cost

Optimization Impact

Backend Selection Impact

TODO: Document performance impact of backend choice

Memory Pooling Impact

TODO: Explain pooling efficiency gains

Kernel Fusion Impact

TODO: Document kernel fusion benefits

Benchmarks

Synthetic Benchmarks

TODO: Provide benchmark results

Real-World Workload Performance

TODO: Document application benchmarks

Performance Profiles

Latency-Optimized

TODO: Explain latency optimization profile

Throughput-Optimized

TODO: Document throughput optimization

Power-Optimized

TODO: Explain power efficiency profile

See Also