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Mhm, but it kinda hurts to see, that AMD is able to push out APUs powering the likes of a Playstation 5 and everything on a single chip, while on desktop you ne
by SunlitCat 3y ago
Mhm, but it kinda hurts to see, that AMD is able to push out APUs powering the likes of a Playstation 5 and everything on a single chip, while on desktop you need to buy the cpu and a chunky gpu seperately.
- wmf 3y agoThe consoles are not socketed or upgradeable. That's the difference.
- bryanlarsen 3y agoAM5 only has a 128 bit wide memory bus. (2 64 bit channels). So we're not going to get a usably beefier GPU until AM6. However, on laptops which aren't constrained by backwards compatibility, Strix Point Halo appears to have both a beefy GPU and a 256 bit memory bus.
- mjevans 3y agoExactly. Desktops also need to step up to using 4 channels of memory and thus a wider memory bus.