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Afaik the Intel Integrated GPUs either have a hard limit on the addressable RAM or are capped to half the available RAM. I don’t know of any AMD G series equip
by dagmx 4y ago
Afaik the Intel Integrated GPUs either have a hard limit on the addressable RAM or are capped to half the available RAM.
I don’t know of any AMD G series equipped laptops with that much memory , but admittedly I haven’t looked closely at the options.
Then there’s the issue of memory sharing of actual data resources. Albeit, this is down to Software, but more software for Mac can assume shared memory to take advantage of it, versus other brands because iGPUs have historically been very limited.
- sudosysgen 4y agoThe AMD laptops don't need to be in the G series to have an iGPU - they all do. The G series only exists for desktops. > Albeit, this is down to Software, but more software for Mac can assume shared memory to take advantage of it, versus other brands because iGPUs have historically been very limited. AFAIK there is no such software that only supports Macs. You can query these features at runtime, and it's easier to do so than to rewrite your renderer for Metal.
- dagmx 4y agoAh yeah I always get tripped up by AMDs offerings. I didn’t say the software needed to only support Mac, but if they have a metal backend (as many things have multiple backends) they know they can spend the time to get a bigger ROI due to the number of shared memory macs as a percentage of all macs.