Jan 26, 2017 · RAM is not partitioned off between CPU and GPU like you see with x86 integrated GPUs. This also means that when processing something that requires both CPU and GPU processing, the system copies the data to RAM once, then …

Nov 17, 2004 · It seems odd that Apple would begin doing the work with Egpus only to transition to ARM if, for technical reasons, an arm chip wouldn't work with an NVIDIA or AMD gpu. I didn't know where to post this but figured the MBP forum might be a …

Aug 19, 2019 · Every GPU that macOS has a driver for might be usable with Apple Silicon. Apple just needs to recompile the drivers. Do they control the drivers, or does AMD? Check Big Sur. Are the kexts FAT binaries (with x86 and ARM images)? The GPUs won't be usable during boot since they only have x86 code in their roms (separate BIOS and EFI images).

Nov 28, 2020 · I believe virtio-gpu only makes the GPU available to the guest. Still you need a proper Direct3D driver for that GPU. Similarly the Apple Paravirtualized Graphics Framework. You still need a client driver for the M1 GPU. In any case Apple certainly could provide such a driver.

Jul 6, 2020 · Microsoft rolling out an increasingly larger number of ARM servers in AZURE (that are GPU less) should prove to be a bigger discrete GPU driver demand than "super ultramobile " laptops that all have integrated GPUs (and no basic need for a discrete GPU) and also have no Thunderbolt ports (nothing for the eGPU to connect to).

Jul 12, 2007 · For instance, some architectures perform FP16 operations using a dedicated FP16 unit (Apple), some use their FP32 units (Nvidia), some use a single FP32 unit but can perform two FP16 calculations simultaneously (AMD/ARM) if there are two available within a thread (instruction level parallelism - ILP - within a single GPU thread, just like how ...

Dec 13, 2016 · This means the GPU in the SoC can access most of that memory. Sure there are laptops with 64 GB memory buts its not unified. In windows laptops the GPU cannot access the RAM that's why there is dedicated memory on windows laptops and Intel Macs. No Windows laptop GPU has access to that kind of memory. Even the RTX 5000 series go up to 16GB VRAM.

May 19, 2020 · And to your second question about external GPU support: The answer is flat no. The M series does not support external gpus. For your money, I would suggest that you’re better off building a mid-range PC, and using a MacBook Air for your needs. The game performance would be similar, and you stated that you don’t need pro performance for your ...

May 10, 2020 · The topic in discussion here is iMac - and a late 2021 iMac could end up being ARM powered and the thickness of an iPad. While Apple hasn't proven to be able to scale ARM up to desktop class TDPs (yet) I imagine that a super light desktop would be interesting to some (fully expecting the performance wizards to jump on this).

Nov 18, 2020 · There is no hardware accelerated driver for Windows 10 on ARM as a guest machine yet because... I'm guessing Microsoft didn't really expect to optimize performance of Win10ARM in VM. Also, it's hard to compare this against a regular x86 Windows 10 machine because there is barely anything running on Windows 10 ARM to compare.