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barno
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What is a wavefront?

Could someone please explain me what EXACTLY a wavefront on my GPU is supposed to be?

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A wavefront is a hardware thread.
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Originally posted by: MicahVillmow A wavefront is a hardware thread.


Haha, simple version. If you search the forum for "wavefront" you will probably find all the answers you need.

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wavefront is a group of workitems generally 64 in AMD GPUs that execute together. Refer to OpenCL Programming Guide for more details

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