A resourceful user was able to turn the tiny 3D cache memory built by AMD in its latest consumer processors into a secondary, albeit puny storage unit....
it’s in this article as well "… AMD’s 3D V-Cache can be even faster when used for its intended purpose. First-generation 3D V-Cache is good enough for a 2 TB/s peak throughput, AMD states, while data bandwidth is even higher (2.5 TB/s) on the second-generation variant of the technology…
even losing 90% of it’s peak throughput is still good for .182TB/s and while the peak numbers came up using a 16/32MB dataset on a 96 MB drive , the tech was still able to pull a READ of 111k MB/sec and WRITE of 50k using an 8GB dataset on the same 96MB partition - the author called the results ’ puzzling ’
(answered twice because reddit automod removed first post for linking to twitter where the results were posted. if you want to see it, twit handle is GPUsAreMagic)
it’s in this article as well "… AMD’s 3D V-Cache can be even faster when used for its intended purpose. First-generation 3D V-Cache is good enough for a 2 TB/s peak throughput, AMD states, while data bandwidth is even higher (2.5 TB/s) on the second-generation variant of the technology…
even losing 90% of it’s peak throughput is still good for .182TB/s and while the peak numbers came up using a 16/32MB dataset on a 96 MB drive , the tech was still able to pull a READ of 111k MB/sec and WRITE of 50k using an 8GB dataset on the same 96MB partition - the author called the results ’ puzzling ’
(answered twice because reddit automod removed first post for linking to twitter where the results were posted. if you want to see it, twit handle is GPUsAreMagic)