CUDA Profiling and Performance Measurement

CUDA Profiling and Performance Measurement The notes up to this point covered what makes CUDA kernels fast in theory: coalescing, tiling, occupancy, and asynchronous execution. This note covers how to measure whether a kernel is actually fast and how to find the bottleneck when it is not. Profiling is what separates guessing from optimization. Without it, you can apply every best practice and still be slower than a simpler implementation. ...

September 4, 2026 · 9 min