I did say it wasn't exactly the same thing but at least with some previous *Lake Intel CPUs the gfx took up quite a lot of the die. If you are using an external

I did say it wasn't exactly the same thing but at least with some previous *Lake Intel CPUs the gfx took up quite a lot of the die. If you are using an external GPU quite a lot of transistors could fail and you could still use the CPU, just like hacksawing off the ethernet chip.