Uncovering the Memory Hierarchy of Modern NVIDIA GPUs for Accurate Simulation

arXiv:2611.13860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging artificial intelligence workloads, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), place unprecedented demands on GPU memory systems. Consequently, architectural innovations increasingly target the memory system to alleviate these bottlenecks. However, existing works still rely on outdated memory hierarchy models that fail to capture the complexities of modern hardware. This fidelity gap leads to inaccurate characterization and could misguide optimization strategies. To bridge this gap, we present GemAtlas, the first systematic reverse engineering of the memory hierarchy in modern NVIDIA GPUs.