The cows and fake hermits went crazy because I made a very logical and absolutely correct statement. As it turns out, my prediction was 100% right. I said AMD was in the unique position to create an APU with a Ryzen CPU and Vega GPU that can rival discrete cards in which case those 'gaming' APUs will take over because they are smaller and fit in laptops or small form factor PCs. Intel and Nvidia are in grave danger I said due to the foreseeable death of discrete CPUs and GPUs. And Intel can't compete with the AMD APU because they can't make a GPU that competes. Nvidia can't compete with an AMD APU because they can't make a CPU to compete.
AMDs new Ryzen/Vega APU initially is not targeting the enthusiast game market. I thought eventually AMD would develop a powerful APU and with that take over. As it turns out, Intel got scared, realized the situation they were in and partnered with AMD to create a powerful APU with an Intel CPU and AMD GPU. They are initially making the chips for gaming laptops which makes perfect sense. Intel is way ahead of AMD in CPU power efficiency which is of paramount importance in the laptop space. The future IMHO will have Intel and AMD developing a high end enthusiast level desktop APU that will take over the PC market and eventually kill discrete CPUs and GPUs.
I was right, those who argued with me and insulted me have been owned to beyond repair. They were clowning me as if I didn't know what I was talking about now their entire PC building world will transform on them. The cows will have to upgrade their imaginary PCs as well. Click on the link below.
Intel's mobile chips will match discrete GPU performance without the discrete GPU size.
In a bid to build better chips for gamers and other PC enthusiasts, Intel has announced the 8th-generation H-series mobile processors will have a feature that's nothing short of astonishing: they'll integrate AMD GPUs.
For the 8th generation, that's going to change. The chip package will contain multiple pieces of silicon: an Intel CPU, a custom-built AMD Radeon GPU, and stacked second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2). Connecting the GPU and its memory is Intel's new "Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge" (EMIB), a high-speed, short-range interconnect that Intel has designed to join different chips within a single package. Intel says that EMIB enables the creation of faster, thinner packages, enabling the multi-chip module to fit into slimline laptop form factors.
The announcement is, of course, a little surprising. Intel and AMD have long been rivals, competing head to head across most of the processor market. This kind of collaboration and tight integration is new for both companies. But it also makes sense for them.
To offer the graphical performance that gamers want, those H-series chips are often paired with a mobile Nvidia GPU of some kind. With embedded AMD graphics, there's no longer any need to do that. Not only should the embedded AMD GPU offer performance that's in the same ballpark as a discrete GPU, it should also do so in a way that enables slimmer, more power-efficient systems.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-will-ship-processors-with-integrated-amd-graphics-and-memory/
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