alt Hacker NewsYup, the only reason Macs have higher memory bandwidth is because they use more memory channels, which gives them a wider bus. Both Intel and AMD only allow more than dual channel memory on server class processors these days.
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Kon5ole • yesterday at 7:35 PM
The memory bandwidth is a small thing compared to the massive win you get by not having to move data between two memory pools at all.
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PunchyHamster • yesterday at 10:42 PM
Threadripper have that extra bandwidth and M5 still is faster
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throwaway85825 • yesterday at 9:14 PM
Except strix halo.
The “Apple only does X better because they do Y” thing has been a meme for ages. I remember dismissals like “PowerPC is only faster at math because it has more integer units” or something along those lines, and thinking, uh, isn’t that a good thing?