Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
by nottorp on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @07:51PM
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Unified doesn't necessarily mean dual ported.
Due to how DRAM works the array itself cannot have more than one port and almost certainly even the DRAM chip as a whole is still some variation of single ported SDRAM (long time ago there were various pseudo-dual-ported DRAM chips, but these were only really useful for framebuffer-like applications). But given that there are multiple levels of cache in the SoC it is somewhat moot point.
Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
by sliken on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:40AM
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LPDDR4x (the ram chips in the m1) comes in dual port flavors.
Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
by formerly_proven on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @04:45AM
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I suspect you mean they come with two channels on a single chip, which is not the same as two ports. Channels access separate bits of memory. Ports access the same bits of memory.
It is. We know they're using a unified memory architecture, they pointed it out in the presentation.