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> eh, there is nothing a gpu can do here within the concept of composition that a cpu could not also do.

True, but which is more efficient?

> on sane architectures its all the same ram anyway

Opinions differ. The main benefit of splitting RAM is not having to share the bus. As I said, this lets you use the CPU for CPU things without having to spend precious DRAM bandwidth shovelling pixels.





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