Can anyone explain how hashcat is able to crack Scrypt via CPU without using tons of

[Chick3nman]

I may be mistaken, but from what I can find regarding the SSG's use of M.2 SSD's on board, it does not seem like they will be usable as VRAM. Instead, it sounds like the onboard SSD will be used as a highly accessible cache or swap area, where the host can load large datasets, and the GPU can then interact with that dataset very easily and quickly, removing the bottlenecks involved with talking to the host. This would be more like Intel Optane and less like real VRAM/RAM. The core itself would still have it's own set of VRAM, it would just be able to rapidly swap in and out of the SSD to store large things or collect next work units without having to directly ask the host board. Interesting nonetheless, just not quite the same as having 1TB of VRAM.

"Ultimately the trick for application developers is directly streaming resources from the SSDs treating it as a level of cache between the DRAM and system storage." - http://www.anandtech.com/show/10518/amd-...ds-onboard