That's interesting, thanks for making me aware. I'll try to dig up some reading material, but in some sense this is going the opposite of how I want the world t

That's interesting, thanks for making me aware. I'll try to dig up some reading material, but in some sense this is going the opposite of how I want the world to work because nvidia is already a supply chain bottleneck and so therefore saying "the solution to this supply and demand is more CUDA" doesn't get me where I want to go > any CPU involvement is a further slowdown. This would also apply to socketed memory on a GPU though: Significantly slower and less bandwidth I am afraid what I'm about to say doubles down on my inexperience, but: I could have sworn that series of problems is what DMA was designed to solve: peripherals do their own handshaking without requiring the CPU's involvement (aside from the "accounting" bits of marking regions as in-use). And thus if a GPGPU comes already owning its own RAM, it most certainly does not need to ask the CPU to do jack squat to talk to its own RAM because there's no one else who could possibly be using it I was looking for an example of things that carried their own RAM and found this, which strictly speaking is what I searched for but is mostly just funny so I hope others get a chuckle too: a SCSI ram disk <https://micha.freeshell.org/ramdisk/RAM_disk.jpg https://micha.freeshell.org/ramdisk/RAM_disk.jpg>