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Apple Confirms Mac Pro Is Dead, No Future Models Planned (www.macrumors.com)

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[–] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like discrete GPUs could be so much faster at these kind of cross compute tasks through ReBAR/SAM if not for all the proprietary crap and half baked drivers. Unified is a view into that perfect world of what could be if we stopped with the monopolistic BS.

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

ReBAR may make things bit more efficient, but you still need to move data back and forth to VRAM over the slow PCIe bus.

This is not a huge problem for games, as it’s mostly sending data to VRAM that stays there for a long time, but it is a major bottleneck for many GPGPU tasks.

Since even Nvidia doesn’t seem to care about games anymore (and consoles have always used unified memory) I expect the discrete GPU to go the way of the dodo.