| hinch said: Well ok.. I'l let that one fly I just assumed from your play on that username that you could be "that guy". Anyway, its still I'll believe it when I see it situation for me and that probably goes for most people here commenting on this, and rightfully so. I mean why on gods name would they put a dedicated GPU AS WELL as an APU in there. It's far more cost efficient to go full APU or keep the traditional CPU and GPU separate. Not only does it increase complexity in design, but its just doesn't make a lick of sense considering how much they invested in their custom APU - the Octo-core CPU, GPU, 32mb eSRAM, move engines fitting onto one 28nm die. Only to throw another GPU in there. I mean from the last couple of months we've have all heard the PR from Microsoft saying that the hardware doesn't matter.. And that they haven't been aiming for the top high end graphics, downplaying the differences in performance at every opportunity they got and hyping their own hardware updates. It just comes off the old PR BS to me. Especially, you see some multiplatform devs who've actually got their hands on both dev kits coming out to say that the PS4 is ahead of Xbox One in sheer performance. I'm sorry but honestly, the whole dGPU talk sounds like a lot of old crap. |
I think the point is not why MS is doing this but why AMD is doing it. Its a design by AMD not MS so what is the advantages of having a dGPU on a APU. One thing is that you can have crossfire setup without having a separate card. If both share the same memory then you probably would have faster performance than having 2 GPU cards tied together using the PCI bus.
