… and M3 Ultra with 500GB VRAM says “hold my beer”.
Combined RAM != VRAM
If the GPU can access it, it’s effectively VRAM.
I don’t think it can? Thought I read there’s some split point ratio involved with OS vs GPU use. I could be wrong, as I don’t use a Mac.
I mean, a GPU can access ram swap data stored on spinning platters, not sure how effective that would be.
In Mac Studios, I believe all the memory is shared. As much as I hate Apple, it looks like a solution to our most common problem = lack of VRAM. Of course, the thing has to be soldered together, so you’re not upgrading your machine one piece at a time.
…as well as “we’ll hold your second mortgage.”
The poor cannot afford to buy crap. Where can I sell a kidney?
Livers are going for more these days.
I’m not exactly sure how it’s split. You can’t allocate it so that the GPU utlilizes all of your memory, but it still can take a goodly chunk for itself. Like if you buy an M4 with 500GB RAM to go with your private jet, the GPU can take at least 200 gig of that.
…and I just looked it up. An M3 Ultra Studio with 512GB ram and a 1TB SSD is just shy of $10,000.
Not mine…
I think if you go with the 500GB SSD, price comes down to $7500.
Not that I’m expecting this new card/series to be anywhere in the land of “affordable for the average artist”, of course. It will be hell expensive, I’m sure. But, it will exist. And for those who need it and can pay for it, they’ll have an option they previously didn’t.
Did someone leave the door open on the apple thread again?
The memory update from roughly 100gb to 512gb is 5000 dollars…
This isn’t the place to talk about Apple computers. Take that to the Apple thread
It just takes $100 off the price. Going with 2TB adds an extra $3000 though.
We’ll continue this discussion elsewhere.
I think such RTX Pro would be useful to run something like an LED volume where performance is scaled with more render nodes, but more RAM is welcome for a single unit.
So yeah, not really something you need for home use anyway.
From what I understand it is a solution to the problem. A hard hit to all of us Apple haters, however it’s not all the memory. I think it’s somewhere around 70% of it can be used by GPU cores or something like that - not all. It’s still a lot and it seems to be viable option if VRAM is the problem. Rendering is slower then alternatives so we can still hate that happily. As far as I know. But what do I know, I may be wrong.
Sorry, saw that only after posting. Shutting up.
Actually, Apple is cheap as chips:
I feel like there wasn’t much ambiguity in “this isn’t the thread to talk about Apple” 
There was that one AMD card with 16GB + 2TB of “ram”. The radeon Pro SSG. Lately AMD released the Ryzen AI 395+ and Framework is about to release a version with 128GB of ram for $2k. Almost all of that could be used for the AI on the Ryzen or for Vram from what I understand. It’s also a very face iGPU being as fast as a 3070 or 3080 if undervolted.
As for the Nvidia card. I feel like they are so hard to get or expensive they might as well not exist.