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Comment by foobiekr

3 years ago

GPUs doing DMA is a problem whether you have unified memory or not. This is why IOMMU exists.

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larsnystrom  3 years ago

But in more traditional systems the GPU would use its own physical RAM, which should at least make it isolated?

  • sudosysgen  3 years ago

    It still uses DMA for communication with the host, it's just over PCIe instead.

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