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And even then memory channels is not really a marketable term for OEMs so not much is done to get that in. Only enthusiast (and thus really expensive) laptops g

And even then memory channels is not really a marketable term for OEMs so not much is done to get that in. Only enthusiast (and thus really expensive) laptops go with a large number of memory channels.

wtallis 3y ago
There aren't any enthusiast laptops with more than a 128bit memory bus for the CPU, and memory channels and bus width are the wrong metrics to compare discrete GPUs where both width and clock speed vary widely across the entire product line.
- rowanG077 3y ago
  This isn't at all about discrete GPUs, where did you get that from? This is about APU/iGPUs. In general memory channel are expensive so you won't see a new product with 8 channels running 3000Mhz memory speed or something like that. Also Apple laptops do have large memory busses. The Apple M1 Max chip for example has a 512bit memory bus.
  - wtallis 3y ago
    I assumed when you said "Only enthusiast laptops go with a large number of memory channels" you intended to refer to something beyond just the MacBook Pro, because "enthusiast laptop" is usually used to describe a category that definitely includes a lot of laptops that aren't MacBook Pros, and only arguably includes some MacBook Pros. And if you did mean to refer specifically and only to MacBook Pros, there were plenty of more straightforward ways for you to do so.
    - rowanG077 3y ago
      It's quite simple really. Macbook Pro M1 Max is in the set of enthusiast laptops. You said there are none. I gave that as a counterexample. I wasn't specifically thinking about it in my original comment. In fact I wasn't specifically thinking about even a bus width that I consider "large". It was a general comment that memory channels are not cheap to have in a piece of silicon and that consumers generally don't care about it as a metric of performance.

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And even then memory channels is not really a marketable term for OEMs so not much is done to get that in. Only enthusiast (and thus really expensive) laptops g

by rowanG077 3y ago

wtallis 3y ago
There aren't any enthusiast laptops with more than a 128bit memory bus for the CPU, and memory channels and bus width are the wrong metrics to compare discrete GPUs where both width and clock speed vary widely across the entire product line.
- rowanG077 3y ago
  This isn't at all about discrete GPUs, where did you get that from? This is about APU/iGPUs. In general memory channel are expensive so you won't see a new product with 8 channels running 3000Mhz memory speed or something like that. Also Apple laptops do have large memory busses. The Apple M1 Max chip for example has a 512bit memory bus.
  - wtallis 3y ago
    I assumed when you said "Only enthusiast laptops go with a large number of memory channels" you intended to refer to something beyond just the MacBook Pro, because "enthusiast laptop" is usually used to describe a category that definitely includes a lot of laptops that aren't MacBook Pros, and only arguably includes some MacBook Pros. And if you did mean to refer specifically and only to MacBook Pros, there were plenty of more straightforward ways for you to do so.
    - rowanG077 3y ago
      It's quite simple really. Macbook Pro M1 Max is in the set of enthusiast laptops. You said there are none. I gave that as a counterexample. I wasn't specifically thinking about it in my original comment. In fact I wasn't specifically thinking about even a bus width that I consider "large". It was a general comment that memory channels are not cheap to have in a piece of silicon and that consumers generally don't care about it as a metric of performance.