Gimp speed up: gpu or cpu?

Thanks for the replies. Testing with the GEGL unsharp mask filter, htop shows my 16 cores at the top of the screen. They all spike up to around 40% processor usage while it’s doing the unsharping. Htop looks the same as far as CPU usage goes whether Open CL is enabled in GIMP preferences, or not.

The Gimp system resources preferences already tell it to use all 16 of my CPU cores.

Here are partial results of “clinfo.” There is more, but this seemed like the important part:

Platform Name                                   NVIDIA CUDA
Number of devices                                 1
  Device Name                                     GeForce GTX 960
  Device Vendor                                   NVIDIA Corporation
  Device Vendor ID                                0x10de
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 1.2 CUDA
  Driver Version                                  384.130
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 1.2 
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Device Topology (NV)                            PCI-E, 0b:00.0
  Max compute units                               8                                   
  Max clock frequency                             1367MHz                             
  Compute Capability (NV)                         5.2