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wtallis on Feb 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning

Less useful is an understatement: your working set simply cannot touch that memory region at all without crippling performance.

dragontamer on Feb 23, 2015 [–]

That's true of any system. A "real" 4GB that touches the 4.1GB region will be forced to use CPU main memory over the PCIe bus.

So the 0.5GB region is still faster than PCIe IIRC. Not ideal of course, but still better than a bunch of PCIe transfers.

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