The difference being, at no point audio and NICs required >200W of power budget to meet consumers' demands. Even if you scale down your expectations, iGPUs hav

The difference being, at no point audio and NICs required >200W of power budget to meet consumers' demands. Even if you scale down your expectations, iGPUs have been hampered for decades by the limited RAM bandwidth - there was no point in beefing up the GPU side if the memory couldn't keep up. My personal benchmark has been "can it play Witcher 3 (almost a 10 year old game by now) at 1080p/60fps on high settings" - and we are getting there only recently (https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-890M-Benchmarks-and-Specs.843536.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-890M-Benchmarks-and...). Hopefully the platforms with CUDIMM will finally deliver the bandwidth needed.