GPU atomic operations performance on different type of resources (updated with Fermi, Kepler and Vega)
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I tried on a Radeon HD 5850, and back then the difference between atomics and atomics counters was 100x. Atomic counters perf were close to the R9 290X.
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I would have thought that atomicCounterAdd on AMD would have similar speed as atomicCounterIncrement, or at least be faster due to atomics going through those 8 special registers.
And find nVidia's imageAtomicAdd just as odd as it should be the same path for all of them.

