Quote from: NikoB on July 27, 2023, 14:10:23This is all useless due to the shameful speed of the x86 memory controllers. What's the point of super-fast VRAM if seamless level loading is limited by system memory bandwidth, which is more than 14 times less than the speed of the future 5090?
The shame of x86 is growing. x86 is at a dead end due to architectural flaws.
At the same time, servers are using HBM memory with a speed of more than 700 GB / s with might and main.
x86 is an increasingly less balanced architecture, in which literally everything is sewn with white thread and consists of many crutches, like senseless attempts to increase the L3 cache (they have already reached L4). For sustainable performance, it's all dead poultices until the RAM bandwidth is increased by at least 5 times immediately, like on the Apple M2 Max.
system ram only limits load times but even that would be reduced with direct storage in windows 11.
otherwise cpu limitations play a bigger role than ram alone. any increase in l3 cache would mean increase in memory access latencies, addressing l3 cache latencies would mean an increase in power consumption even at idle.
in yesteryears gpu performance would never increase at this rate, gpu performances have been increasing because power levels are now skyhigh, it would never be acceptable a decade ago for a gpu to consume 600w.
if we allowed cpus to consume 600w too, i'm sure there wouldn't be any issue with cache or ram but not many gamers would accept a 1500w pc just to run counter-strike.