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hajile 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M seri...

Apple made a big deal about this, but other iGPUs have done this for years.

bsenftner 9 months ago [–]

It's not just the GPU memory, it's also I/O memory. That speeds up a lot: just update the pointer to where the memory is, no copying out of I/O memory.

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