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Seems unlikely, at least for any normal use case. PCIe 5.0 (the current standard that is widely shipping) has 16GB/sec in each direction (32GB/sec total) with a x4 connection.

Doubly so that for the last decade or so memory sizes haven't increases. Seems like the vast majority of machines these days are 8-16GB ram and have a max of 64GB ram unless you are buying workstation parts.

How many times a second do you need to load 100% of ram from storage?

At least the strix halo supports 128GB of ram.



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