Is cudamalloc slower than cudamemcpy?

It seems rather long for a cudaMalloc. Also check your driver is up-to-date.

It is understandable. The nvcc embeds ptx code into the application binary which has to compiled to native gpu binary using a JIT compiler. This accounts for the start up delay.

AFAIK malloc is not slower than memcpy .

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