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Console APUs don't need to be particularly power-optimized. If the RDNA 2 GPU in the PS5 can't idle below 10w, nobody will care. If the RDNA 2 GPU in your lapto
by kllrnohj 6y ago
Console APUs don't need to be particularly power-optimized. If the RDNA 2 GPU in the PS5 can't idle below 10w, nobody will care. If the RDNA 2 GPU in your laptop can't idle below 10w, that's unshippable. A decent laptop doesn't draw 10w total at idle including screen & all that.
- shmerl 6y agoWell, they are working with Samsung to put some generation of RDNA in their Exynos chips. So surely they should care about power efficiency.
- kllrnohj 6y agoAnd I'm sure at some point there will be an RDNA-something APU from AMD, too, but there also isn't any existing power-optimized RDNA cores sitting around either to point at and just be like "but why didn't you use that instead?"