From 6cb129744753288038250686378c0ea1326e1a13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Istvan Kiss Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:27:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update docs/understand/hip_runtime_api.rst Co-authored-by: MKKnorr --- docs/understand/hip_runtime_api.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/understand/hip_runtime_api.rst b/docs/understand/hip_runtime_api.rst index 1abfff34d5..2ff2236dde 100644 --- a/docs/understand/hip_runtime_api.rst +++ b/docs/understand/hip_runtime_api.rst @@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ segment of global with queryable size. Texture memory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -Read-only storage visible to all threads in a given grid and accessible -through additional APIs. +Read-only storage visible to all threads on a given device and accessible +through additional APIs. Its origins come from graphics APIs, and provides +performance benefits when accessing memory in a pattern where the +addresses are close to each other in a 2D representation of the memory. Surface memory ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^