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by Baeocystin 1108 days ago
I don't disagree with Dylan, but I'm more than willing to bet that the only reason Nvidia's cards (and that's who we're talking about. CUDA is a hell of a moat.) are RAM-starved is that they haven't felt the pressure to do otherwise. AMD has an institutional aversion towards good software. Intel isn't even an also-ran, yet.

Apple and their unified memory architecture may be the prod needed to get larger levels of RAM available to single cards solutions. We'll see.

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Nvidia has had unified memory for more than 6 years. This chip is just a faster interconnect for it.