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Interesting: > With Strix Point, AMD’s mobile iGPU has a newer graphics architecture than its desktop counterparts. It’s an unprecedented situation, but not a
by bornfreddy 2y ago
Interesting:
> With Strix Point, AMD’s mobile iGPU has a newer graphics architecture than its desktop counterparts. It’s an unprecedented situation, but not a surprising one. Since the DX11 era, AMD has never been able to take and hold the top spot in the discrete GPU market. Nvidia has been building giant chips where cost is no object for a long time, and they’re good at it. Perhaps AMD sees lower power gaming as a market segment where they can really excel. Strix Point seems to be a reflection of that.
Did AMD figure out that this market segment is underserved by NVidia? If so, good for them, laptops could use better GPUs.
- dagmx 2y agoI doubt Strix Point is gunning for NVIDIA. It’s more than likely this is just a stronger play to get ahead of Intel in market share. That’s a much more tangible competitor in that space. Whether it means more games optimize for AMD as a side effect is tangential at best. Otherwise there’s no real reason to treat this as competing with NVIDIA. It’s an integrated GPU so it’s not moving any extra units.
- mmaniac 2y agoNvidia can't really enter this segment unless Windows on ARM takes off, and they don't want to be the one to put the first foot forward. If Snapdragon X Elite is a success, you can bet Nvidia will be producing laptop SoCs with passable CPUs and great iGPUs.