| drkohler said: This "Let's slapp a low-end graphics core to the CPU because we have some space left on the die and nobody is going to ask where the ram for the GPU is located" is going absolutely nowhere. It is ultimately a stupid idea because users will have bought an expensive, high-end CPU with a low-end GPU incorporated (and you need a new mainboard for this chip as well). If you bought a new PC with a separate GPU, you could always replace the graphics card when new and better GPUS appear. Now you would be stuck with an expensive CPU/GPU hybrid (which a low-end AMD 5450 beats the crap out of it). |
The GPU is fully power gated so it doesn't use power when it isn't active. It uses ~10% of the die area. Plus AMD is doing it too, so no net loss competitvely.
It won't increase the cost of the PC because you now don't need graphics or a northbridge on the motherboard chipset.
Finally, next year Intel is putting the VRAM on the CPU package, stacked up. Problem solved.
btw Llano performance ~= HD 56xx
