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> If you're spending $300+ on a CPU, you're probably buying a GPU as well. I’m not a gamer. I don’t give a shit about any GPU performance I couldn’t have on in
by josteink 7y ago
> If you're spending $300+ on a CPU, you're probably buying a GPU as well.
I’m not a gamer. I don’t give a shit about any GPU performance I couldn’t have on intel integrated 10 years ago.
I just need compute, and I hate to have to pay 50-100 usd extra for a completely overspecced GPU that will idle at 0.0000000001%.
- jdietrich 7y agoGPU is compute. The list of use-cases that require lots of CPU and negligible GPU performance are shrinking by the day. Video and photo editing are heavily GPU accelerated, as is 2D and 3D CAD/CAM. Scientific computing is increasingly reliant on GPU performance and even your browser is GPU accelerated. I suspect that an increasingly large proportion of developers will start demanding fast GPUs as the usefulness of low-precision computing expands. It just doesn't make sense for AMD to waste a lot of very expensive die area on a crappy GPU that most of their customers will never use, for the benefit of a very small minority of customers who resent paying extra for a cheap dGPU. The Zen 3 APUs should offer up to 8c/8t or 8c/16t with a fairly capable Vega GPU, which is a far more compelling value proposition for the vast majority of consumers.
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- arvinsim 7y agoI used to think that way until I tried to run 4K@60hz on my previously owned 2015 13" MBP. Stuttering sucks. I went with the 15" with dGPU on my new MBP and the problem went away.