On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 12:29:29PM -0500, Geoffrey Jacobs wrote: > The vector unit (formerly the GPU) would still have the local caches, > no? Also, the APUs these would be replacing already have physically > unified access to the DDR3 memory pool, so there's no change in > effective bandwidth. Some APUs would come with a GDDR5 memory pool, so > memory bandwidth would be upgraded for the CPU.
Purportedly, there will be something resembling the PS4 architecture for the PC market. That would be an APU with 8 cores and stacked memory. > The big change is that the pools are not separately allocated. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
