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GPU 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
by jdietrich 7y ago
GPU 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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