Accelerated Computing
FIELD GUIDE
§ 07
Benchmarks

The lines that diverge.

Throughput on dense FP16 matrix-multiply, normalised to a 2008-era data center accelerator (FP32 baseline projected to FP16 for comparability). Note the log scale: the CPU has roughly tripled, the accelerator has improved by three orders of magnitude.

2008 → 2026
22×
CPU improvement
2008 → 2026
980×
accelerator improvement
1×10×100×1000×20082012201620182020202220242026CPUGPU / accelerator