New in CUDA 8

Pascal Architecture Support

• Enhance performance out-of-the-box on Pascal GPUs
• Simplify programming using Unified Memory including support for large datasets, concurrent data access and atomics
• Optimize Unified Memory performance using new data migration APIs
• Increase throughput at ultra-fast speeds using NVIDIA® NVLINK™, new high-speed interconnect

Developer Tools

• Identify latent system-level bottlenecks using critical path analysis
• Improve productivity by up to 2x with faster NVCC compile times
• Tune OpenACC applications and overall host code using new profiling extensions

Libraries

• Accelerate graph analytics algorithms with nvGRAPH
• Speed-up Deep Learning applications using native support for FP16 and INT8, support for batch operation in cuBLAS