Research Article

Real-Time Incompressible Fluid Simulation on the GPU

Table 2

Performance results: this table shows the average frame rates of our framework on the CPU and two different generations of GPUs (the performance is measured using average frames per second (fps) over 3 k time steps).

ScenesCPU-based methods
(fps)
Our method
(fps)
Single-threaded
Solenthaler [13]
Multithreaded
Solenthaler
[30]
(speedup)
GTX 480
(speedup)
GTX 780
(speedup)

CBD3.495.75
(1.6x)
39.84
(11.4x)
67.98
(19.5x)

Solid bunny2.484.18
(1.7x)
23.29
(9.4x)
45.21
(18.2x)

Bunny drop1.783.58
(2.0x)
19.91
(11.2x)
41.24
(23.2x)

Two dam breaks2.073.31
(1.6x)
13.73
(6.6x)
34.68
(16.8x)