Yes, there are architecture benefits, yes part of this comes from the SOC that keeps the RAM close to the processor, and yes, these things are part of what makes the M1 have great performance.īut regardless of the system, when you exhaust physical memory, the system swaps to SSD, and this works the same whether your chip is Intel or Mx. I'm not just specifically referring to your comment in this discussion, as I was fairly clear there seems to be all over the net this general belief going around than "RAM somehow works differently on the M1 Macs".
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There is a reason that stock M1 machines are outperforming 64GB ram monster Mac machines. Its how the architecture is handling the RAM that is making it so good. If you read my original comment carefully (I'm sure you did), you know that I used the word EFFECTIVELY. Yes, memory is complicated in systems and there are all kinds of caches, and paging in and out between RAM and disk (SSD), and these new chips have good performance and we know that modern computers can work with memory requirements over and above their physical size with these swapping schemes etc, but it doesn't somehow magically make a machine with 8G perform the same as one with 16GB of ram. It's not rocket science - if your application requests 500MB of ram, there is no way a different chip can somehow store 500MB of data in less hardware.
I find this whole attitude very weird, and from what I can see, it stems from the initial machines only supporting lower amounts of RAM as standard (because that's what they specced for the first generation of entry-level M1 chips), and instead of a lot of people going "Hmm, this current lower RAM limit is a pain", they attempted to justify it with "maybe the RAM somehow 'goes further' with these new chips, along with "while I was testing this 8GB machine I didn't seem to get any memory problems".
Have you definitive sources for this opinion? Please link them up. Plenty of internet testing done already to check this out. I believe its fair to say that they (Silicon chips) will change the way we look at RAM and our requirements for it.ĨGB on silicon is effectively 16GB - 24GB on intel.
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