Pretty surprising results on Blender and Gaming. (Less impressive results with Premiere)
P.S. The storage being cached by the 32GB Optane is a 1 TB SATA 6 Gbps SSD.
That's a good point. Much like SuperFetch being mostly useless on an SSD system, much of the "pre-paging" behavior that is designed to prevent the worst-case latency scenarios from occurring while paging with a mechanical HDD, could be elided, with a system with an Optane cache drive being used for paging. (Move to JIT paging, rather than pre-paging.)Looking at those results and considering that H10 is available on lower end hardware maybe Microsoft will begin to allow the option to change "swappiness" in Windows?
Yep, that is NVDIMM-P.
P.S. Regarding NVDIMM-P I have been wondering if Intel is working on something the equivalent of that but on the GPU die? (Imagine perhaps a GPU using TSVs (ie, stacked GPU dice*) with DRAM right above that and Optane right above the DRAM.
*Think GPU designed with high performance per watt at low voltage....with the lack of absolute performance made up by stacking the dice.
GPUs would do well with internal storage for graphics data. You could eliminate load times and texture pop in as the primary storage feeds the on GPU storage.
Imagine a typical 12GB of frame buffer and then another 64GB of low latency storage right on the GPU.
Game code would need to change to take advantage of this but I bat that would not be that hard as all you are doing is changing where the data is, not the actual data.
The problem with that idea, like with all others is cost.
64GB Optane is quite pricey. If you want developers to code for it, then you'd want it widespread. You would want it not just on GTX 1060 class cards, but much lower. Literally every new discrete GPU out there needs to have it on board, so of course AMD's as well. Look at what's happening with RTX and DLSS.
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Looks like Optane Persistent Memory will be coming to Client Workstations later this year, not HEDT but we are getting there
3:56 Scott Miller (of Dreamworks) talks about moving persistent memory closer to the end user.
5:47 Scott Miller (of Dreamworks) wants to federate the 3DXpoint DIMMs across the enterprise which he describes as sort of a fabric vision but with end user workstations rather than data center gear.
19:37 A Question was posed to Scott (of Dreamworks) about how persistent memory could change (animated) movie workflows. His answer was he wanted to do something called "Sequence based or whole film based development" rather than working on individual shots (about 80 frames) within each workstation. This would take 200TB, 300TB or 500TB of federated persistent memory spread across many machines to hold all the assets (and drive work) to work on the whole movie at the same time.
36:47 Scott Miller (of Dreamworks) mentioned designing APIs around in memory data structures rather than for filesystems.
Looks like Optane Persistent Memory will be coming to Client Workstations later this year, not HEDT but we are getting there
Reason: The hardware fix should result in a substantially better 4K QD1 read compared to the firmware fix used by Whiskey Lake.
This is a good point. I hadn't thought of that. They probably won't retest it.
This is a good point. I hadn't thought of that. They probably won't retest it.
But, we should see laptops coming with H10. Computex is showing laptops with H10 coming. Then we'll see it in a relative sense.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-...for-a-starting-price-of-800-USD.421438.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Alien...h-even-thinner-Alienware-m17-R2.422290.0.html
Only Dell so far.
I doubt Intel will be sending me an Ice Lake system for storage testing until they have another new storage product to use with it.
I am starting to wonder if the 815P is a myth. Perhaps they are holding it back so the hybrid drives can get the spotlight?
900 MB/s write or 450 MB/s write? (450MB/s is sweet, but 900 MB/s would be so much better. Furthermore, the 4K QD1 write would faster too)
They changed the layout on the M15. I wonder if they are going to put something on that space there below the Optane branding?