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by eigenspace 661 days ago
Even with UMA architectures where you eliminate the memory transport costs, it still costs a ton of time to actually launch a GPU kernel from the CPU.
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Yeah, that's why I qualified with 'could'. Really depends on what facilities the hardware and driver provide. If the GPU is on the same die, perhaps the latency isn't great, but I really don't have the data on that. But I'd really like to see something like voxel deformable/destructible environments leveraging UMA on the Apple M. Seems like that something that would be groundbreaking, if only Apple really cared about gaming at all.