By: hobold (hobold.delete@this.vectorizer.org), October 31, 2020 5:34 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
blue (blue.delete@this.blue.com) on October 30, 2020 11:52 am wrote:
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> RX 6000 series? "Smart Memory Access" is the CPU and GPU working together to extract more performance?
A bit more info was released, and this seems to be rather mundane. The CPU is allowed to open a much wider addressing window into GPU VRAM. It used to be a 256MB aperture, now it can be all of 16GB at once. With this "Smart Memory Access" feature, most bank switching / segmentation / manual addressing overhead can be avoided.
A nice way to reap a tangible performance uplift from 16GB VRAM for modest games that don't even require 8GB for their art assets.
[...]
> RX 6000 series? "Smart Memory Access" is the CPU and GPU working together to extract more performance?
A bit more info was released, and this seems to be rather mundane. The CPU is allowed to open a much wider addressing window into GPU VRAM. It used to be a 256MB aperture, now it can be all of 16GB at once. With this "Smart Memory Access" feature, most bank switching / segmentation / manual addressing overhead can be avoided.
A nice way to reap a tangible performance uplift from 16GB VRAM for modest games that don't even require 8GB for their art assets.