Answer by Matthew Dillon for How much memory can a 64bit machine address at a...
Taking an Intel or AMD CPU as an example, there are several limitations to both physical memory and virtual memory. Other people have talked about hardware pin-out and motherboard limitations, but...
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I think it can take more than an exabyte "EB".Look at this 32-bit processor can take 232 B = 4 GB, but at most it take 3 GB "because they are 1 GB for reversed addresses"That means 64-bit processor can...
View ArticleAnswer by ThinkBIG for How much memory can a 64bit machine address at a time?
You can have as much RAM as you'd like but it all depends on the operating system and the application you're running - as someone else stated.If you're running an hungry CPU intensive application...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael J for How much memory can a 64bit machine address at a time?
If you use MS Windows, the maximum memory is constrained by the operating system. For Windows 7, the maximums are: Starter: 2GB Home Basic: 8GB Home Premium: 16GB Professional: 192GB Enterprise: 192GB...
View ArticleAnswer by Nicholas Knight for How much memory can a 64bit machine address at...
There are multiple interleaving factors.First of all, you are currently unable to assemble a system that has 264 bytes (16 exibytes) of physical RAM.Second, just because an architecture uses 64-bit...
View ArticleAnswer by Alex Martelli for How much memory can a 64bit machine address at a...
A 64-bit machine should be able to address up to 264 addressable units (in architectures designed over the last few decades, addressable units are invariably bytes, a.k.a. octets). If you define a...
View ArticleHow much memory can a 64bit machine address at a time?
If the memory is byte addressable, shouldn't it be 2^64 / (2^10 * 2^10 * 2^10) = 2^34 GB ?A general Google search says 8GB or 16GB max.How is that true? Also, how does it depend on the Operating System?
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