# UnifiedMemoryPerf - Unified and other CUDA Memories Performance

## Description

This sample demonstrates the performance comparision using matrix multiplication kernel of Unified Memory with/without hints and other types of memory like zero copy buffers, pageable, pagelocked memory performing synchronous and Asynchronous transfers on a single GPU.

## Key Concepts

CUDA Systems Integration, Unified Memory, CUDA Streams and Events, Pinned System Paged Memory

## Supported SM Architectures

## Supported OSes

Linux, Windows

## Supported CPU Architecture

x86_64, ppc64le, armv7l, aarch64

## CUDA APIs involved

### [CUDA Runtime API](http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-runtime-api/index.html)
cudaMemcpy, cudaStreamDestroy, cudaMemPrefetchAsync, cudaFree, cudaMallocHost, cudaMallocManaged, cudaStreamAttachMemAsync, cudaHostGetDevicePointer, cudaFreeHost, cudaStreamSynchronize, cudaMalloc, cudaMemcpyAsync, cudaStreamCreate, cudaGetDeviceProperties

## Dependencies needed to build/run
[UVM](../../../README.md#uvm)

## Prerequisites

Download and install the [CUDA Toolkit 12.5](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads) for your corresponding platform.
Make sure the dependencies mentioned in [Dependencies]() section above are installed.

## References (for more details)