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It's new for mainstream PCs to have it.
by hot_gril 2y ago
It's new for mainstream PCs to have it.
- TylerE 2y agoNew for performance machines maybe. I remember "integrated graphics" when that meant some shitty co-processor and 16 or 32MB of semi-reserved system RAM.
- pjmlp 2y agoNope, it was common in 8 and 16 bit home computers, and in respect to PCs themselves graphics memory was mapped into the main memory until the arrival of 3D dedicated cards. And even with 3D, integrated GPUs have existed for years.
- djmips 2y agoLike pretty much every game console.
- hot_gril 2y agoThe CPUs with iGPUs didn't also have the memory on-chip. The Nintendo 64 did. Not sure about the old home computers, but I thought those had separate memory usually.
- pjmlp 2y agoOf course not, because they are not designed as SOCs, the only memory on chip is cache, it doesn't change the fact the memory is one whole block shared between CPU and iGPU.
- angoragoats 2y agoApple does not have the memory on-chip (on the same die as the CPU) either.
- Vilian 2y agoIt's not new for PC to block user ram upgrade