The power and cost of the discrete GPU alone in that scenario will far outweigh the cost of the APU here. The nice thing about the APU line is you can throw the

The power and cost of the discrete GPU alone in that scenario will far outweigh the cost of the APU here. The nice thing about the APU line is you can throw them in cheap mini PCs and not have to worry about having PCIe slots or "real" PSUs, you get a good CPU with a better-than-basic GPU without having to shell out double for a GPU or having a big PC to do it in. They are also monolithic on top of being combined parts so not just the active but the idle power is highly optimized.