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I can only dream of a day when dedicated video cards become just as redundant.

• mixmastamyk 4y ago
  They are for typical use cases, been using intel gfx for ten years or so. Games? No.
• wolrah 4y ago
  > I can only dream of a day when dedicated video cards become just as redundant. They have been for years as long as you don't need high end 3D or compute capabilities. Intel's iGPUs are plenty for most normal desktop use cases and AMD's are good enough to run most mainstream games as long as you're willing to turn the detail down a bit. Not to mention what Apple and the ARM world in general have done. Someone who's not looking to play the latest games with the settings cranked can easily go without. The top end will always want as much horsepower as they can get, so the dedicated video card is never going away unless we figure out some new sort of computational load that takes over the accelerator market in the same sort of way that GPGPU killed standalone audio and physics acceleration.
• mepian 4y ago
  At this point there are no dedicated video cards, there are throughput-oriented multicore floating point coprocessors that sometimes include video interfaces.
  • TillE 4y ago
    Right, it's difficult to imagine external GPUs becoming obsolete without a radical new computing technology to take their place. For games it's easy to find useful ways to use 10x the existing GPU power, not even counting an increase in display resolution. For massively parallel computing, the sky is the limit.
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