Turing coming on scene

[msububble]

Hello, Celebrandil!

Thanks for sharing the implementation of the SIFT algorithm on CUDA!

Have you started exploring the Turing architecture, may there occur any difficulties with compiling and running the existing version on CUDA 10.0 (omitting the issue of updating the code to meet new hardware features, just running as it is now)?

[msububble]

Answering my own question: yes, cudaSift.dll does compile and work on RTX2070, on cuda 10.0 toolkit.

[Celebrandil]

It's good to hear that you got it running. As soon as I have time, I will try to explore Turing and see what CUDA 10 has to offer. Most likely though, it will be hard to find any immediate improvements. You might benefit from the tensor cores, but since most operations are memory bound, you benefit more from changes in the memory architecture than from improvements in compute.