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  • Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM

    dave hayniedave haynie
    rezwits said:
    I think you guys are missing something.

    For 10 years-ish prior to the M series Apple Silicon, Apple was making do with the A series Arm Chips in iPhones AND iPads,  using only 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 GBs of RAM, for nam 10 years!

    Then they broke out the M1 with 8GB, and some have 16GBs sure, but they HAVE experience under 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 GBs of RAM workloads.  I bought an M1 8GB MacMini, that thing is a beast STILL...
    Completely different workloads. When your iPhone is editing 4K video on dual 4K+ monitors, while running a couple of associated applications, a browser, photo tools, etc. in a normal content production environment, see how far that 4GiB DRAM takes you. Yes, the 8GiB is just dandy if all you do is play Angry Birds...
    williamlondon

  • Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM

    dave hayniedave haynie
    Not only is this nonsense, it's actually backwards. Unified memory, whether on a PC or a Mac (hint: unified memory is nothing new... all iGPUs are unified memory systems), are offering LESS memory than traditional dGPU-based systems. Not more. 

    As well, regular everyday OS activities don't individually eat up memory anymore. Maybe Apple is efficient herr, but they're leading away from the real point: modern content creation-- supposedly Apple's specialty -- is the gigantic memory suck. Which is of course why Apple recommends a minimum of 16GiB, even going back to dGPU Intel systems, for this kind of work.
    williamlondon