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Ask HN: Has Apple Silicon's unified memory benefited your workload?

5 points by senttoschool ↗ HN
One distinct advantage of Apple Silicon is that you can get up to 96GB of of high bandwidth (400GB/s) for an M2 Max and up to 192GB (800GB/s) for an M2 Ultra.

Has anyone's workload greatly benefited from this architecture?

I'm thinking AI inference for models where memory size matters more than compute?

3 comments

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zeristor
Would it be 200Gb/s for a MacBook Air M2? Asking for a friend.
Zetobal
With 2 8GB M1s with failing ssds I can tell you that no matter the speed boost it wears out your ssds. swap swap swap.
ttfkam
If you're running macOS earlier than macOS 11.4, then it's time for an update.