Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
Asifall@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhat’s the thermal impact of a ram module? Don’t they use like 2 or 3 watts even in a desktop? Can’t be much…
Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
Asifall@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhat’s the thermal impact of a ram module? Don’t they use like 2 or 3 watts even in a desktop? Can’t be much…
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Actually I don’t know. I’ll ask around. My best guess is that each cache-miss in multithreaded processes delays execution slightly. More of them would effectively “dim” the thermal load the way pulse-width can dim an LED light.
The problem with high ram builds might be that developers of professional software on Macs are well-aware of the max spec and will happily exploit it fully. So like, in a foot race a 16gb machine can run intervals, but a 64gb machine is forced to sprint the whole way.
But that’s just a guess. Good question.