Re:Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB Memory Appears on eB...
by dist-epoch on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:15AM
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> Obviously high-end consumer CPUs already have about 30MB of on-chip memory,
AMD 7950X3D, a desktop CPU, has 144 MB of L2+L3 cache memory on-chip.
Most software isn't even NUMA aware, and would completely fail to take advantage of a tiered memory hierarchy if it was given the option. But if we make the fast memory a big cache and let the CPU worry about it it's a "cheap" win.
Though there is the Xeon Phi which has about 16GB of on-package memory that can either be configured as cache or as "scratchpad" memory. But of course that's not meant for general-purpose software