Contents

White paper covering the most common issues related to NVIDIA GPUs.

• 1. Maxwell Tuning Guide
  • 1.1. NVIDIA Maxwell Compute Architecture
  • 1.2. CUDA Best Practices
  • 1.3. Application Compatibility
  • 1.4. Maxwell Tuning
    • 1.4.1. SMM
      • 1.4.1.1. Occupancy
      • 1.4.1.2. Instruction Scheduling
      • 1.4.1.3. Instruction Latencies
      • 1.4.1.4. Instruction Throughput
    • 1.4.2. Memory Throughput
      • 1.4.2.1. Unified L1/Texture Cache
    • 1.4.3. Shared Memory
      • 1.4.3.1. Shared Memory Capacity
      • 1.4.3.2. Shared Memory Bandwidth
      • 1.4.3.3. Fast Shared Memory Atomics
    • 1.4.4. Dynamic Parallelism
• 2. Revision History
• 3. Notices
  • 3.1. Notice
  • 3.2. OpenCL
  • 3.3. Trademarks