CATS 700 Performance
For embedded applications requiring the ultimate in floating point performance, the ClearSpeed Accelerated Terascale Server (CATS) delivers a cost-effective solution. This enables signal and image processing systems to be implemented in significantly less space and at lower power than any competitve solution.
With 12 CSX700 processors the CATS-700 can achieve:
- 4.2 million 1024 point 1D FFTs per second (215 GFLOPS)
- 26,000 1024x1024 2D FFTs per second (194 GFLOPS)
- 25 billion 32-bit inverse square roots
- 14 billion 32-bit sines
- 12 billion 32-bit exponentials
- An aggregate STREAM benchmark of ~80 GBytes/s
- Typical power consumption less than 300W
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The CSX700 is much more power-efficient than Cell and GPUs for embedded processing. For example, for single precision complex 1024x1024 2D FFT:
| CSX700 | 20 GFLOPS | 7 W | 2.86 GFLOP/watt |
| Cell (8 SPE) | 38 GFLOPS | 40 W | 0.95 GFLOP/watt |
| S870 (Tesla) GPU | 50 GFLOPS | 170 W | 0.29 GFLOP/watt |
| x86 core | 3 GFLOPS | 25 W | 0.12 GFLOP/watt |