fatslob-:O on 22 September 2017
| vivster said: I was more thinking about technology converged and not just repurposed. Built to cater to both scenarios equally. |
I'm not exactly sure how what you just described is any different than what PS4 is capable of ...
Heterogeneous unified virtual memory and cache coherency between CPU and GPU ... (both CPU and GPU have a consistent view of memory)
What you described is what AMD has been talking about since forever and their first implementation ...
| vivster said: I feel hurt that all 3 of you thought I didn't know that PS4 uses unified memory. |
All APU's have 'unified memory' one way or another, it's just that implementation is different depending on chip design ...
Older Intel CPU w/IGP (physically unified memory) vs recent AMD APU (unified virtual memory)
