New MacBook Air with M2

Re:New MacBook Air with M2 by jmull on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:24PM (#32004054)

For a frame of reference, one full frame buffer for a 4K monitor is around 32MB. Put another way, you can have about 32 of them per GB of RAM.

Not that you can’t use plenty of GPU RAM, but 8GB gives you a lot of room to work with. (Video decoding need all that much — probably three buffers worth per stream, and at the size of the video, not the screen.)

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Re:New MacBook Air with M2 by ohgodplsno on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @01:48PM (#32004383)

If you think a compositor only holds a single frame buffer (or even up to three), boy do I have some news for you about the last 30 years.

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Re:New MacBook Air with M2 by jmull on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @05:37PM (#32007123)

I think you're misunderstanding my comment.

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