Powerful GPUs or Fast Interconnects: Analyzing Relational Workloads on Modern GPUs

Summary: MaxBench evaluates relational workloads (TPC‑H, H2O‑G, ClickBench) across GPUs (RTX3090, A100, H100, GH200) and interconnects (PCIe3/4/5, NVLink4), profiling CPU–GPU transfers and per-operator costs. Introduces characteristic query complexity and GPU/interconnect efficiency plus a cost model to quantify compute vs bandwidth trade-offs and forecast performance gains from hardware improvements. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14050
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.7084322e-05
Overall Rank: 7,568 | 47.36%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749698

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2,287	Pipelined Query Processing in Coprocessor Environments	2018	SIGMOD	9.0972606e-05
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2,651	HetExchange: Encapsulating heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelism in JIT compiled engines	2019	VLDB	8.3694317e-05
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6,496	GOLAP: A GPU-in-Data-Path Architecture for High-Speed OLAP	2024	SIGMOD	5.0413077e-05
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7,377	GPUQP: Query Co-Processing Using Graphics Processors	2007	SIGMOD	4.7484565e-05
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