The Case for Higher Computational Density in the Memory-Bound FDTD Method within Multicore Environments

Table 2

GPU kernel throughput for the standard FDTD algorithm at several thread-block size configurations.

𝐵𝑥×𝐵𝑦×𝐵𝑧	MCells/s
4 × 4 × 4	177
8 × 8 × 8	221
16 × 8 × 4	301
16 × 8 × 8	249
32 × 8 × 4	350