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This way does emphasize the incongruity of Intel and AMD in one product. I like it. However, I read the article hoping to figure out why Intel is doing this,
by prewett 9y ago
This way does emphasize the incongruity of Intel and AMD in one product. I like it.
However, I read the article hoping to figure out why Intel is doing this, and no luck there. Are they giving up on the Intel graphics?
- tedunangst 9y agoReading the title I'm curious why Intel went with a graphics core that's been dead for a decade.
- imtringued 9y agoThe intel CPU still has an iGPU.
- a012 9y agoNo they don't, they'll fuse AMD's VEGA core with their CPU (including their IGP) to make this. AMD GPU will be used for heavy task like gaming, rendering while Intel IGP will be used for less power consumption tasks like displaying or h264/h265 encode/decode.
- dsr_ 9y ago"fuse" is a little strong. There's a VEGA GPU in a multi-chip module, connected with a 8x PCIe lane. It's not like Intel licensed the GPU for integration into their own silicon. We've already seen laptops with Intel/AMD hybrid graphics, this just moves it from the motherboard to the other side of the socket without actually giving you the high-speed interconnect that an GPU-on-CPU gets.
- timw0j 9y agoFrom the article: Each of the new parts is a quad-core design using HyperThreading, with Intel’s HD 630 GT2 graphics as the traditional ‘integrated’ low power graphics (iGPU) for video playback and QuickSync. This is connected via eight PCIe 3.0 lanes to the ‘package’ graphics (pGPU) chip, the Radeon RX Vega M, leaving 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU to use for other functionality (GPU, FPGA, RAID controller, Thunderbolt 3, 10 Gigabit Ethernet). So Intel isn't throwing in the towel on the iGPU, they're just augmenting it with a discrete GPU in an all-in-one package for system builders.