Major Nelson on X1 Power: "I can't wait for the truth to come out."

[Machiavellian]

the-pi-guy said:

Machiavellian said:

The rumor states its AMD NDA because they are releasing info on their Next APU/GPU on the 29th.  If AMD will have a dGPU on their APU then this is something they want to release and pimp for their chips.  It could give AMD a advantage over Intel for APUs when they are announce for whatever product they will be used for, Probably very slim laptops.  

While that might be possible, I doubt it.  It seems to go against MS's messaging and I can't imagine that APU + dGPU would be a big enough deal to save it like that.  That isn't really the way I want to say it, but you should know what I mean.  

I agree it does not look likly that the X1 does have a dGPU but if it did, it would definitely be a big difference.  Just think of 2 AMD cards in a crossfire setup.  So basically having 2 GPUs of the same type (because thats what required for crossfire) on the same die, sharing the same memory operating on the same graphics parts would be more efficient than 2 separate vid cards in crossfire doing the same thing over the PCI bus.  It really would separate the X1 from the PS4 and there would not need to be any additional coding required.  It would just work just like crossfire works today.