Blog89.9K views4,180 votes0 replies4,775 following
Unified Memory on Apple Silicon: What Changes When CPU and GPU Share the Same Pool
Apple Silicon's Unified Memory Architecture lets CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine share one DRAM pool—no PCIe copies, no blits. Here's how to exploit it in Metal, where the traps are, and how to verify zero-copy behavior with Xcode Instruments.
apple