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by giantrobot 353 days ago
Unified memory is more about taking advantage of zero copy access for the GPU. Since everything the GPU wants is already right there there's no need to send it on a trip over a bus into separate GPU memory. Memory bandwidth is of course still important for both the GPU and CPU so that unified memory can be a bottleneck if it's slow or has too few channels.