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Depends on the market. Enthusiasts/gamers/etc. are going to want a discrete GPU. For a random desktop / family (without too much gaming needs) / corporate usage
by temac 6y ago
Depends on the market. Enthusiasts/gamers/etc. are going to want a discrete GPU. For a random desktop / family (without too much gaming needs) / corporate usages, an APU is not only fine, but it does not even make much sense to use anything else. Now laptops are fashionable too in that area, and I don't know any hard figures, but I would not be surprised if most desktop client x86 CPU shipped on earth actually are of the APU variety and used without discrete graphics. In which case AMD APUs are actually really good: not many people will want an unbalanced system, and they are properly balanced. Beefy CPUs used with their integrated graphics are for specialized tasks (e.g. non-graphic related dev)
- smabie 6y agoBut AMD CPUs are so much cheaper and have so much better performance you could buy an old-gen graphics card and it still would still have better price/performance than Intel.