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com2kid • today at 5:54 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> The truth is: CPU and RAM progressed at a speed not just a bit but much faster than real estate (pixels) growth and refresh rate.

Back of the envelope, for a 4k HDR ultra wide you'd need tens of gigabytes per second of memory bandwidth alone to do rendering all on the CPU.

There is a reason we offloaded to the GPU.


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oblio • today at 7:29 AM

Doesn't modern RAM go up to hundreds of GB/s? Also, compression?

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