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dahuman on 20 April 2013
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Chark said:
dahuman said:
Chark said:
With APU set ups the GPU is going to become even more important since it will open the GPU up for processes original done for CPU work. It might be young for APUs still and they look weak by current computer understanding of how separate CPUs and GPUs work, but the design is going to be quite the advancement in processing. I don't see why not our high end CPUs will become incorporated into APU designs in the future.


APU is essentially just embedded graphics, like Intel's IGP where they have things like Quicksync and 3rd party enhancements like Lucid's Virtu MVP. It's basically just a fancy marketing term that came about much like how the term GPU came in from Nvidia when we used to just call them video chipset or 3D chipset lol. :P The point is that integrated video processor assisting the CPU is not anything new and has been in place for a few years already.

Is that right? So are APUs just getting a second wind because they seem more relevant now.


They were never out to start with :P It's just that they started putting better ones alongside the CPU and gave it a fancier name. Intel also started to put better GPU into their CPU because of it(HD4000 is actually decent for what it's meant to be) and we all like to have more performance so win-win.