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Yep. Even the framework seems to be moving to soldered on ram.
If you mean the desktop, there must have been something wrong with that AMD chip. Existing designs with LPCAMM are just as fast.
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UMAs aren't made for speed, but for power savings. You are ignoring the fact that a discrete GPU accesses VRAM and caches at much higher bandwidths (and power) than an iGPU does RAM. Shared mem also comes at the cost of keeping it coherent between CPU/GPU. So you can't just look at one part of the system and then claim that UMAs must be faster because there are no data transfers. And by the way, even on UMAs, the iGP…
In the case of the A18 Pro in the Neo, the memory is integrated directly into the package which is shared between the CPU, GPU and Neural Engine. Naturally it's faster to have all of this in the same package, with memory bandwidth up to 400 GB/s. Intel and AMD are heading in the same direction.
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> Apple solders their RAM on the CPU for performance reasons. It’s coming to PCs at some point, if they ever decide to compete on performance ever again. Are you assuming that the PCs do not compete with Macs for performance? People built Hackintoshes that are more powerful than the highest spec Mac Pro - and for cheaper, too
On laptops, which is something between 80-90% of the market for computers, you'd be hard pressed to find a laptop that's competitive with Apple. Can you find a laptop chip that's as good as the M5 Max? Or the M3 Max for that matter. Laptop PCs are starting to lag behind Apple, just like the fastest Android phones have a hard time competing with three year old iPhones. Of course on the desktop, you can just pump more…
Most people, including me, do not need the most powerful chip. Most of what 99% of laptop users do does not require the SOTA. The only task for a laptop that I have that requires more compute is gaming. My 3 year old laptop still performs much better in games compared to the M5 Max, according to benchmarks for the games that I play, not to mention the compatibility advantages
> Of course on the desktop, you can just pump more power into a disappointing x86 chip to eke out better perf but that market is marginal and Apple basically ignores it
Apple has desktop computers for sale, they do not ignore the market. The latest Mac Mini is actually a great value for the money, especially for businesses