3 ms·
Dunno, the vast majority of phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops have had 64 or 128 bit wide memory interfaces for decades. Apple has a high profit market an
by sliken 3y ago
Dunno, the vast majority of phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops have had 64 or 128 bit wide memory interfaces for decades. Apple has a high profit market and a vertical market, unlike the competition. Apple skipped GPUs and did it their own, and the GPU is the primary justification for the 100, 200, 400, or 800GB/sec available with today's apple silicon.
Don't think Intel, AMD, or phone/laptop/desktop ARMs (from anyone but apple) have any near term plans for great memory bandwidth.
Sad. Obviously AMD can do it, they ship a much nicer memory interface on the PS5 and XboxX, but don't ship anything over 128 bit until you move up to $$$$ workstations with the threadripper (256 bit), threadripper pro (512 bit) or Epyc/Genoa (768 bit) wide memory. Even the Epyc/Genoa socket @ 460GB/sec doesn't match the M2 ultra (800GB/sec), despite the bare CPU being more expensive than most of the Mac studios sold.