Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell
Since Volta introduced Independent Thread Scheduling (ITS), NVIDIA GPUs have been widely assumed to handle warp divergence in a fixed manner. We test this assumption across Ampere, Hopper, and datacenter and consumer Blackwell GPUs, using pre-ITS Pascal as a baseline. Combining cycle-accurate microbenchmarks, hardware counters, and static analysis of compiler-generated SASS, we separate stable behavior from architectural change. Across all tested generations, divergent paths serialize linearly w
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Published: 25 July 2026
Source: HuggingFace Daily Papers
Category: Research
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 29 July 2026
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