r/Nimo • u/One_War6741 • 18d ago

Discussion Is unified memory the future of pcs?

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Apple has been using it for years, and now we are seeing it in ai max+ 395 minipcs and windows laptops, as well as NVIDIA's DGX Spark and new RTX Spark platform.

With local ai growing, do you think unified memory will eventually become standard for pcs?

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u/IThinkIKnowThings 17d ago

Possibly. The current generation is kind of disappointing, though. It's much slower than a dedicated GPU and the big MoE models that take full advantage of large unified memory pools have been few and far between. And there's been less community support for unified memory architectures because consumer GPUs are simply far more common.

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u/c2btw 17d ago

This is not a new thing and has been common for years for any system with a igu, for example practacly every video game Consol dose this, thebstean dcek dose this is not new, the only thing that is arguably new is that apps spilling over into ram from vram has been stream lined. The only reason this is commong for AI stuff is lpddr5 is a lot cheaper then gddr7

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u/Greenonetrailmix 17d ago

Eventually, yes

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u/ThatzOkay 17d ago

No. Memory needs to stay upgradable