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What would you use this for? Gaming? 4k home media? Bitshekel mining? General purpose computer? I had to Google the term apu and I'm still not sure if I underst

What would you use this for? Gaming? 4k home media? Bitshekel mining? General purpose computer? I had to Google the term apu and I'm still not sure if I understand (whether it's marketing or something distinct).

0xADD1E 7y ago
Light gaming, general use, HTPC, just about anything really. APU is AMD's term for a CPU with a small graphics chipset on it (most of theirs don't)
- coleifer 7y ago
  Yea I have a ryzen5 and was shocked that it wouldn't boot without a graphics card. No biggie, so I guess this makes sense. No need to buy another card, presumably something akin to the Intel embedded graphics..
  - justinclift 7y ago
    > Yea I have a ryzen5 and was shocked that it wouldn't boot without a graphics card. Quite a lot of motherboards will do the (I think) "three beeps" which means it's detected a missing graphics card. But if you leave it to go for a small while (20 seconds?), they'll continue on after the pause then boot/run without problem. Useful for home servers.
bArray 7y ago
From Wikipedia [1]: > The AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known > as Fusion, is the marketing term for a series of 64-bit > microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), > designed to act as a central processing unit (CPU) and > graphics processing unit (GPU) on a single die. My understanding is that it has always been a CPU and GPU combined, but is some marketing wangle as you suggest. I've owned one in the past and it was generally quite fast in general use, I believe it off-loaded simple GPU related tasks to the GPU part of the APU which ultimately reduced the graphics latency. This seems to be quite similar to the Mali GPU which can be bundled on ARM packages to handle simple graphics [2]. I believe this is how something like the Raspberry Pi can output 4k over HDMI despite not being particularly powerful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_%28GPU%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_%28GPU%29
- tomcam 7y ago
  Why the down votes? I am trying to learn, just like the grandparent poster. Parent seems to be giving information that I was seeking as well. Is the parent’s post wrong or what?
  - bArray 7y ago
    No idea, I wish these people would at least reply and correct me if something is wrong.
klingonopera 7y ago
I have an old SFF-PC currently as my home server, it does my domain DNS, hosts my e-mail, is my Samba-/SMB-/file-server and hosts an Avorion and Arma3 dedicated server. It's way more power efficient to have an SFF do all the 24/7 IT-work and my gaming/main-PC only selectively powered up when I need it.

0xADD1E 7y ago

Light gaming, general use, HTPC, just about anything really. APU is AMD's term for a CPU with a small graphics chipset on it (most of theirs don't)

coleifer 7y ago
Yea I have a ryzen5 and was shocked that it wouldn't boot without a graphics card. No biggie, so I guess this makes sense. No need to buy another card, presumably something akin to the Intel embedded graphics..
- justinclift 7y ago
  > Yea I have a ryzen5 and was shocked that it wouldn't boot without a graphics card. Quite a lot of motherboards will do the (I think) "three beeps" which means it's detected a missing graphics card. But if you leave it to go for a small while (20 seconds?), they'll continue on after the pause then boot/run without problem. Useful for home servers.

bArray 7y ago

From Wikipedia [1]: > The AMD Accelerated Processing Unit (APU), formerly known > as Fusion, is the marketing term for a series of 64-bit > microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), > designed to act as a central processing unit (CPU) and > graphics processing unit (GPU) on a single die. My understanding is that it has always been a CPU and GPU combined, but is some marketing wangle as you suggest. I've owned one in the past and it was generally quite fast in general use, I believe it off-loaded simple GPU related tasks to the GPU part of the APU which ultimately reduced the graphics latency. This seems to be quite similar to the Mali GPU which can be bundled on ARM packages to handle simple graphics [2]. I believe this is how something like the Raspberry Pi can output 4k over HDMI despite not being particularly powerful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_%28GPU%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_%28GPU%29

tomcam 7y ago
Why the down votes? I am trying to learn, just like the grandparent poster. Parent seems to be giving information that I was seeking as well. Is the parent’s post wrong or what?
- bArray 7y ago
  No idea, I wish these people would at least reply and correct me if something is wrong.

klingonopera 7y ago

I have an old SFF-PC currently as my home server, it does my domain DNS, hosts my e-mail, is my Samba-/SMB-/file-server and hosts an Avorion and Arma3 dedicated server. It's way more power efficient to have an SFF do all the 24/7 IT-work and my gaming/main-PC only selectively powered up when I need it.