With ram speeds increasing every day, will shared ram between processors and vid cards become viable again?

[Hajpoj]

Do you think it will become a viable option? I know right now we have low-end cards that "hijack" system ram, but with increasing ram speeds will it be usable on the high end in the immediate future as ddr3 is rolling in soon?

 

[Hajpoj]

night time bump

 

[neutralizer]

It still won't be as fast as the RAM onboard the video card. Not to mention, shared RAM between the system and video card means you need to get more RAM to handle the needs of the system and increased resolutions for the video card.

 

[aurareturn]

No because there just isn't enough bandwidth to feed to highend video cards. Having the ram on the GPU is much much faster and video ram is now over 2Ghz+.

 

[chcarnage]

With ram speeds increasing every day, will shared ram between processors and vid cards become viable again?

Has it been at a certain moment, since the arrival of graphics memory? 😕

 

[jameswhite1979]

The slow point would become the bridges and different controllers and the cycles to address them. I have always wondered about 30 years in the future will it all just become a big lump of silicon that will then remove all bandwidth restrictions?

 

[Roguestar]

Why would you need it? You'd just bottleneck going through the memory controller or northbridge instead of having graphics memory on the same board as the GPU.