[stego-tech]

I get all of that already, but stand by my original points: for most consumer, non-data center workloads, the compromises aren’t likely to be noticeable to the end user. We’re not talking about edge cases like local-AI or AAA gaming enthusiasts who want to run software at bleeding-edge capabilities and who will dissect performance deltas between driver versions or overclock their kit for maximum performance, because we’re the edge cases in the marketplace.

Everything is ultimately a compromise of some sort, and modern Unified Memory feels like one of the better compromises out there given the current plateauing of hardware scaling, the growing costs associated with memory and NAND, and the shifting complexity from hardware (more instruction sets, more accelerators, more cores) to software (more abstraction layers, more machine learning).