Comment on 8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests
Petter1@lemm.ee 11 months agoLol, the ram is part of the m3 chip That’s a reason why it is so efficient. The storage in m3 is for RAM and videoRAM.
Wikipedia: The M3’s Unified Memory Architecture features up to 24 GB RAM, the M3 Pro up to 36 GB, and the M3 Max up to 128 GB. Like the M2 generation, the M3 SoCs use 6,400 MT/s LPDDR5 SDRAM. As with prior M series SoCs, this serves as both RAM and video RAM.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s literally how Intel integrated GPUs work too
DarienGS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
With Apple’s chips the RAM is all on the CPU die so both CPU and GPU get the performance benefit. With Intel’s, none of it is.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What Apple calls “unified memory” is RAM (random-access memory) used as “main memory” (not a CPU or GPU cache and not mass storage either).
The term “unified” refers to the fact that the memory is shared by the CPU cores and the GPU cores. That’s not novel: “integrated graphics” options in Intel x86 chips (like Iris Xe) do the same, as do just about all modern smartphones.
DarienGS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not talking about the merits or otherwise of “unified memory”, I’m pointing out that because Apple’s RAM is physically integrated into the CPU, it can provide more memory bandwidth than regular DDR5 DIMMs.
Petter1@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yea but the RAM is not on the located within the chip design, is it?