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RAM isn't just RAM though. Unified memory on Apple Silicon provides significantly better memory management and efficiency compared to trad RAM


Says your rose-tinted marketing-loving glasses. Unified memory only means you lose some to graphics. Only your GPU wins this bargain, not your usual workloads.


Other workloads win because on Apple Silicon the GPU memoy remains accessible by the CPU so there only needs to be one copy of computed resources for the GPU to use.




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