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Apple makes it very clear in their materials that their unified memory is a very big part of their performance boost. > So if a future Mx chip supports discret
by ogre_codes 6y ago
Apple makes it very clear in their materials that their unified memory is a very big part of their performance boost.
> So if a future Mx chip supports discrete RAM, it may not seem quite as magical anymore.
I agree, but I also doubt they will be making a Mac Pro SOC with huge amounts of RAM aboard either. I'm not sure how common they are, but Apple supports up to a terra-byte of RAM (maybe more). I could easily see SOCs with 64GB of RAM, but I'm struggling with them putting 128 or 256GB+ on the SoC.
Maybe some kind of hybrid?
Very curious to see how they are going to work around this.
- ema 6y agoDoing a hybrid approach which is basically swap to off-chip ram shouldn't be too hard.
- ogre_codes 6y agoIt would be interesting if Apple treated their off-chip RAM as a RAM disk. Could make for some intriguing possibilities. So you'd "swap" from the hot/ on chip RAM into slower GDDR RAM instead of to the SSD.