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NVMe wouldn't give you the best latency, but a 16x PCIe card loaded with DRAM and addressable as a scratch disk doesn't sound bananas. I wonder why Apple didn't
by AprilArcus 3y ago
NVMe wouldn't give you the best latency, but a 16x PCIe card loaded with DRAM and addressable as a scratch disk doesn't sound bananas. I wonder why Apple didn't market something like that as a first party solution.
- nickpeterson 3y agoI expect that expansion cards from Apple are going to be the way they differentiate the mac pro line. I'm betting that Apple is going to come out with discrete GPU's based on their integrated graphics and sell them as add-ons for the Pros for ML/AI workloads and likely to help with normal stuff like rendering in Autodesk/Adobe/Finalcut type apps. That said, it isn't the bet I'd make if I was tasked with purchasing for a company. I'd get the studios in a reasonably high config and then sell them every 2-3 years and replace with newer model. You'd pass the pro's in perf pretty readily from CPU bumps alone and likely recoupe a lot of your investment.
- bee_rider 3y agoA RAM disk formatted as swap? Probably would work. Funny concept. Let’s lie to OS and tell it that this memory is actually a disk. Then, it will lie to the programs, and tell them that that disk is actually memory.