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All of Intel's recent mass market chips have had built in GPUs as well. That's not particularly revolutionary. The article itself states "9 out of 10" computers
by ebbv 13y ago
All of Intel's recent mass market chips have had built in GPUs as well. That's not particularly revolutionary. The article itself states "9 out of 10" computers sold today have an integrated GPU. That 9 out of 10 is Intel, not AMD.
The integrated GPUs make sense from a mass market, basic user point of view. The demands are not high.
But for enthusiasts, even if the on die GPU could theoretically perform competitively with discrete GPUs (which is nonsensical if only due to thermal limits), discrete GPUs have the major advantage of being independently upgradeable.
Games are rarely limited by CPU any more once you reach a certain level. But you will continue to see improvements from upgrading your GPU, especially as the resolution of monitors is moving from 1920x1200 to 2560x1440 to 3840x2400.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoI believe the revolutionary aspect of this is the programmatic access to the GPU as a co-processor.
- Sanddancer 13y agoAMD's APUs have crossfire support built in. So if/when your graphics needs get to the point where you need more oomph, you can add a discrete gpu and take advantage of both the on-die and the plug-in gpu.
- cdash 13y agoWell, not exactly. AMD calls this Dual Graphics and it only works with certain graphics cards. In the case of Kaveri this is like 2 entry level R7 series cards that use DDR3 memory instead of the traditional GDDR5 for more powerful graphics cards. This makes it almost pointless in my opinion as you can get a discrete card that is more powerful on its own then the combination for not much more money.