Apple’s Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers. Here’s why.
Apple’s Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) was announced in June. 2020 along with its new Apple Silicon CPUs. The UMA has a number of benefits compared to more traditional memory approaches and represents a revolution in both performance and size.
In traditional desktop and laptop computer design, the main system memory known as RAM sits on a system bus which is separate from the CPU and the GPU.
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