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Intel borrows AMD feature which could finally mean more allocated RAM for the iGPU for these all-important AI tasks

Intel Shared GPU memory benefits LLMs Expanded VRAM pools allow smoother execution of AI workloads Some games slow down when the memory expands Intel has added a new capability to its Core Ultra ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Multi-GPU Shared Memory via Automatic Optimization of Fine-Grained Transfers

Harini Muthukrishnan (U of Michigan); David Nellans, Daniel Lustig (NVIDIA); Jeffrey A. Fessler, Thomas Wenisch (U of Michigan). Abstract—”Despite continuing research into inter-GPU communication ...
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Intel is following AMD in adding a crucial feature to Core Ultra — especially if you're using local AI

AMD has had a feature on its APUs for a while now that's attractive not just to gamers, but also local AI users; Variable Graphics Memory. Now, Intel is following suit, by adding a similar feature to ...
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New Intel driver lets you dedicate 93% of system memory to the iGPU for VRAM, enabling support for larger AI models

The new driver targets systems with built-in Arc Pro Graphics, enabling, for example, a 64GB host system to allocate 59.5GB ...
Network World

Kernel space: Memory management for graphics processors

The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. The management of video hardware has long been an area of ...
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Another reason to avoid shared-memory graphics

SEATTLE -- In an earlier post, I theorized that users saddled with PCs that share graphics and system memory would not be happy with Longhorn. After talking this morning with a Microsoft manager, it ...