JRPGfan on 02 June 2016
| m0ney said: How can APU be as powerful as a dedicated mid to high end video card? Wouldn't it make sense to replace all video cards with APUs then? |
Thats the future of PCs.
Intel or AMD, and useing the integrated gpu (thats on chip).
The reason why this never happend was because of memory bandwidth issues.
System ram are slow, even DDR4 isnt enough to make it work well enough at those GPU amounts.
However Hybrid Memory Cube technology is going to change that when it ends up getting used as system memory.
Nvidia cant make x86 cpus.... so they cant offer a APU that can run windows.
Which is why they started doing android stuff... trying to get into Smart phones & tablets.
Nvidia fears a future where motherboard manufactures dont sell a PCIe lane for graphics cards (forces nvidia out of the pc market)
Where everyone just uses a IGPU from a APU.
