• God's hairiest twink@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Couldn’t you just treat the socketed ram like another layer of memory effectively meaning that L1-3 are on the CPU “L4” would be soldered RAM and then L5 would be extra socketed RAM? Alternatively couldn’t you just treat it like really fast swap?

    • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Wrote a longer reply to someone else, but briefly, yes, you are correct. Kinda.

      Caches won’t help with bandwidth-bound compute (read: ”AI”) it the streamed dataset is significantly larger than the cache. A cache will only speed up repeated access to a limited set of data.