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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by pjmlp on Thursday March 06, 2025 @02:29AM (#43277433)
Nope, it was common in 8 and 16 bit home computers, and in respect to PCs themselves graphics memory was mapped into the main memory until the arrival of 3D dedicated cards.

And even with 3D, integrated GPUs have existed for years.

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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by djmips on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:15AM (#43278433)
Like pretty much every game console.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by hot_gril on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:01PM (#43283117)
The CPUs with iGPUs didn't also have the memory on-chip. The Nintendo 64 did. Not sure about the old home computers, but I thought those had separate memory usually.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by pjmlp on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:09PM (#43283184)
Of course not, because they are not designed as SOCs, the only memory on chip is cache, it doesn't change the fact the memory is one whole block shared between CPU and iGPU.
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Re:Apple M3 Ultra by angoragoats on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:52AM (#43290147)
Apple does not have the memory on-chip (on the same die as the CPU) either.
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