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Nearly every consumer Intel CPU sold for the last 10 years has had unified memory between the CPU & GPU. Similarly nearly every Qualcomm, ARM, etc... SoC for th
by kllrnohj 3y ago
Nearly every consumer Intel CPU sold for the last 10 years has had unified memory between the CPU & GPU. Similarly nearly every Qualcomm, ARM, etc... SoC for the last 10+ years has had unified memory.
This isn't a rare or new architecture. Apple didn't invent this or popularize this with the M-series SoCs.
Now since you mention PCIe you're almost certainly only thinking of discreet GPUs. Those of course are not unified memory. But the vast majority of consumer CPUs also have an integrated GPU and that is often unified.
- mschuster91 3y agoThese integrated GPUs however often are barely worth calling them by that name, and completely forget about the crap Qualcomm and others ship.
- touisteur 3y agoI wish I could easily use the 2 TFLOPS Xe GPU of the TigerLake gear I have with something else than the whole opencl/oneAPI/dpc++ kitchensink. I wish Intel really made an effort on the programability of all their offload hardware, be it GPUs or Myriad-X stuff... Either open everything and support a community, or make the sustained long-term CUDA effort... Hopefully SYCL gets us there but I still feel TigerLake was a grossly missed opportunity...