FWIW, the O2's UMA let it handle far more textures than almost any other contemporary system with reasonable performance.

Most other SGIs had single or low double-digit megabytes of texture memory, whereas the O2 could host one gigabyte of unified memory and use a huge chunk of that for textures.

UMA was never about performance and it still isn't. Spark is slower than a 5090.

did they learn why? were there other gains?