I think you are mixing up RAM and VRAM.

Schiendelman 12 days ago | parent | next [-]

On a Mac they are the same thing; they're shared. Of course you need some amount for the OS, but if you have an Apple Silicon Mac with 24GB of RAM, you can likely run a 16GB model.

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crims0n 12 days ago | parent | prev [-]

They are effectively one and the same on Apple Silicon.

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NekkoDroid 12 days ago | parent [-]

Which most people as a matter of fact don't use. A majority of people with laptop have separate memory pools and the VRAM of them is nowhere near that and even on most gaming laptops you aren't getting 16GB VRAM.

	▲	fredzel 12 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> A majority of people with laptop have separate memory pools Majority of people with laptop have RAM and igpu using some of that as VRAM.
	▲	mrkstu 12 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would say on this forum it wouldn’t be suprising for commentors to be near or above 50% that have access to an M Series Mac…