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[–] OlorinDK@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] T-Nan@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know people shit on Macrumours but they did a little writeup to go with a review from a Max Tech co-host, and it covers this pretty well.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/10/8gb-ram-in-m3-macbook-pro-proves-the-bottleneck/

The whole "8GB is as good as 16GB on Intel/AMD" makes literally zero sense.

[–] TizonaBlu@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

You don’t need macrumors to tell you 16 >>> 8

[–] dccorona@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure how an article that compares 8gb vs 16gb on otherwise the same CPU can possibly disprove a statement that 8gb on Apple Silicon = 16gb on x86. We need to see comparisons to the most closely comparable Intel chip.

Of course 16gb is better than 8gb on the same machine, that was never disputed by anyone.

[–] Sopel97@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

that 8gb on Apple Silicon = 16gb on x86

that's obviosly false, the ISA is hardly relevant