What's the difference between “gld/st_throughput” and “dram_read/write_throughput” metrics?
In the CUDA visual profiler, version 5, I know that the "gld/st_requested_throughput" are the requested memory throughput of application. However, when I try to find the actual throughput of hardware, I am confused because there are two pairs of metrics which seem to be qualified, and they are "gld/st_throughput" and "dram_read/write_throughput". Which pair is actually the hardware throughput? And what does the other serve as? Roger Dahl gld/st_throughput includes transactions served by the L1 and L2 caches. While dram_read/write_throughput is the throughput between L2 and device memory. So,