Why are large kernels on CUDA slower than on CPU?

asked 2018-11-26 06:24:32 -0600

es gravatar image

updated 2018-11-27 09:01:13 -0600

I have modern *buntu with stock drivers.

My hardware is i7-7700 and Nvidia 1080 oc.

I tried OpenCV 3.4.3 and 4.0.0.

I am creating my filter like that:

 cv::Mat k = KernelMaker::muKernel3(p, a); // 100x100
 filter = cv::cuda::createLinearFilter(
    CV_32F, CV_32F, k, cv::Point(-1, -1), cv::BORDER_REFLECT));

and later using like that:

cv::cuda::GpuMat gbw; //20 megapixels
cv::cuda::GpuMat stmp(gbw.size(), CV_32FC1, cv::Scalar(0));
filter->apply(gbw, stmp, stream);

But its many times slower than CPU implementation with Filter2D.

If I run it with a small 3x3 dummy kernel then GPU implementation gets much faster. So it's not memory copy or anything like that i think.

Can y get my large kernel to run faster?

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maybe use Nsight to profile the program, see which part does it spend most time.

blues gravatar imageblues ( 2018-11-27 20:03:28 -0600 )edit