===Memory Examples===
Here the data for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_%28microarchitecture%29 Fermi)] as an example: <ref>CUDA C Programming Guide v7.0, Appendix G.COMPUTE CAPABILITIES</ref>
* 128 KiB private memory per compute unit
* 48 KiB (16 KiB) local memory per compute unit (configurable)
* 768 KiB L2 cache
* 1.5 GiB to 3 GiB global memory
Here the data for the AMD Radeon HD 7970 ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next GCN]) as an example: <ref>AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing OpenCL Programming Guide rev2.7, Appendix D Device Parameters, Table D.1 Parameters for 7xxx Devices</ref>
* 256 KiB private memory per compute unit
* 64 KiB local memory per compute unit
