Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:22 am
The Intel Mac’s need multiple different chips for RAM, CPU, GPU, I/O. etc.
The M1 (and beyond) Apple Silicon chips have everything built onto one piece of silicon, system on a chip (SOC).
Everyone (including Apple) say this means that the newer machines using the unified memory architecture have vastly improved performance.
And in many/most cases, they talk about needing far less RAM, because of this performance boost.
I have an Intel Apple with 64 GB and am starting to encounter organs that won’t fit. I could add RAM (up to 128 GB) but it’s a nine-year-old Mac Pro, so wondering if one of the just announced Mac Studio’s would be a better investment.
I’m confused about the unified RAM, though.
For Hauptwerk, would the amount of RAM required for an organ be the same, regardless of unified RAM, or the pre-unified?
Lawrence