Table 1 Computation time and computational time details for hologram generation (CPU computation time is the average of 10 measurements; GPU computation time is the average of 1,000 measurements).

From: Real-time colour hologram generation based on ray-sampling plane with multi-GPU acceleration

RS image resolution [pixels]

2,048 × 2,048

3,072 × 3,072

4,096 × 4,096

Processor

CPU

GPU

CPU

GPU

CPU

GPU

Transfer time HtoD [ms]

 

1.9

 

3.1

 

5.7

Wavefront information acquisition [ms]

1,050

1.1

2,910

2.5

4,380

4.4

Propagation calculation [ms]

6,360

8.0

30,180

37.3

31,050

38.1

Hologram calculation [ms]

210

1.9

900

3.8

990

6.7

Transfer time DtoH [ms]

 

0.2

 

0.2

 

0.2

Drawing time [ms]

12.0

12.0

12.0

12.0

12.0

12.0

Total computation time [ms]

7,632

25.1

34,002

58.9

36,432

67.1