Captain_Tom said:
ShinmenTakezo said:
I think some people fail to understand what exactly is going on with this. The APU in the One is made by AMD. It is not MS' tech, it is AMD's. MS' apu was not built MS. MS had AMD make a custom apu. This is exactly the same thing Sony did. MS does not have HUMA or anything similar. Either you have it or you don't. There is no in between. You can't sort of have heterogeneous unified memory access. This isn't software. It isn't just hardware. It is a different approach to computing. A more efficient way that allows CPU and GPU to cancel each others bottlenecks out. With current architecture you have to communicate with the CPU and GPU seperately. When data needs to get passed between the two, it has to be copied. HUMA eliminates that so one algorithm can communicate with CPU and GPU at the same time. Impossible without HUMA. |
Thank you! Someone else here actually knows what he is talking about!
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Yeah it took me all of 15 minutes to read up on hUMA and the differeneces between that and Ones archetechture to figure it out. I had no clue what hUMA was before that. All I knew was that the PS4 had it and AMD was going to start putting it in PCs. The rest was just common sense and logic.
