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oblio a day ago

Doesn't modern RAM go up to hundreds of GB/s? Also, compression?

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reverius42 a day ago | parent | next [-]

You still probably don't want to use 10% of your memory bandwidth at all times for a windowing effect?

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oblio a day ago | parent [-]

Ergo my point about compression :-)

Desktop images are generally large blobs of pixels next to each other. I haven't verified but I would be surprised if 10x compression is not possible. So maybe 2-5GB/s? Also it's not like the GPU doesn't use up energy itself while doing this.

	▲	darkmighty 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		GPU can clock a lot lower and use much less energy by focusing on parallelism.

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nixon_why69 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dual channel DDR5 is like 60, tops, 100s is on big many-channel servers.

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happymellon a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't really want 10% of my memory bandwidth being taken up by rendering my glassy title bars.

Now wobbly windows is something I can get behind.

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com2kid 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

DDR5 you are looking at around 40 gigabits / second for single channel setups.

Oh wait someone stacked 7 full screen transparent terminal windows on top of each other and now you've exceeded memory bandwidth.

Meanwhile any GPU from the last decade (15+?) years will handle dozens of transparent objects on top of each other.

I'm 100% in love with old school but sometimes I just have to admit newer HW is better.