Re:Apple Plans First iMac Desktop Redesign in Nearly a Decade
by ksec on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:45AM
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It was written in the assumption that Desktop M chip will have much bigger GPU and hence higher Memory bandwidth requirement.
They could use 8 Channel DDR4 which gives them 200GB/s. That is roughly 3 times the memory bandwidth of current mobile M chip. Or DDR5 and pushes it to 400GB/s. Although DDR5 is barely out.
Also worth noting, if they use 8 Channel DDR configuration, the minimal amount of RAM shipping would be 64GB.
None of the above hypothesis seems very Apple to me.
They could use 8 Channel DDR4 which gives them 200GB/s. That is roughly 3 times the memory bandwidth of current mobile M chip. Or DDR5 and pushes it to 400GB/s. Although DDR5 is barely out.
Also worth noting, if they use 8 Channel DDR configuration, the minimal amount of RAM shipping would be 64GB.
None of the above hypothesis seems very Apple to me.