No, you misunderstood. A current standard computer bus path is guaranteed to have at least 3 bus paths: CPU, RAM, Storage.
The amount of energy required to communicate between all three parts varies, but you can be guaranteed that removing just one PLUS removing the capacitor requirement for the memory will reduce power consumption by 1/3 of whatever that total bus power consumption is. This is ignoring any other additional buses and doing the bare minimum math.
The speed of this memory would matter less if you’re also reducing the static storage requirement. The speed at which it can communicate with the CPU only is what would matter, so if you’re not traversing CPU>RAM>SSD and only doing CPU>DRAM+, it’s going to be more efficient.
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
PCIe 5.0 x16 can match DDR5’s bandwidth, that’s not the issue, the question is latency. The only reason OSs cache disk contents in memory is because SSD latency is something like at least 30x slower, the data ends up in the CPU either way RAM can’t talk directly to the SSD, modern mainboards are very centralised and it’s all point-to-point connection, the only bus you’ll find will be talking i2c.
And I think it’s rather suspicious that none of those articles are talking about latency. Without that being at least in the ballpark of DDR5 all this is is an alternative to NAND which is of course also a nice thing but not a game changer.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t even think you know what you’re trying to say at this point, because it’s not making sense. Think what you will, but it’s obvious your conception of how computer architecture works is flawed. You’ll see this memory in machines and hopefully figure it out though. Good luck 🤞
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
So… what’s wrong about my characterisation of computer hardware? Do you have any issue with the claim that RAM doesn’t talk directly to the SSD, but via the CPU? If yes, please show me the traces on the motherboard which enable that. About the importance of latency to CPU-type computations?
Or do you want to tell me how it’s absolutely unsuspicious to bang out a press release in tech and talk about “speed”, not distinguishing between bandwidth and latency? Where’s the fucking numbers. There’s no judging the tech without numbers and them not being forward with those numbers means they’re talking to investors, not techies.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m not even sure where you got this RAM talking to storage thing from. This is why I’m saying you don’t know what you’re talking about it. I think your fundamental understanding of this is flawed.