NCSU researchers bump processor performance over 20 percent

N.C. State researchers have developed a way to boost computer processors by more than 20 percent.

Dr. Huiyang Zhou and his team have worked to improve the efficiency of processors with fused architecture that include CPUs and GPUs on a single chip.

"They rarely collaborate to execute any given program, so they aren’t as efficient as they could be. That’s the issue we’re trying to resolve," said in statement released by N.C. State. "Our approach is to allow the GPU cores to execute computational functions, and have CPU cores pre-fetch the data the GPUs will need from off-chip main memory," Zhou says.

Testing has revealed performance an average boost of 21.4 percent.