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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was recently reading Tracy Kidder's excellent book Soul of a New Machine.

The author pointed out what a big deal the transition to 32-Bit computing was.

However, in the last 20 years, I don't really remember a big fuss being made of most computers going to 64-bit as a de facto standard. Why is this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

384 bits for the GeForce 4090

384bit is the memory bus width. AMD's Fiji (r9 290x) had a 512-bit bus in 2013. Not to be confused with data types used for calculations.