Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia

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JRPGfan said:

vivster said:

High end Laptops is a bit misleading. This technology will be in small form factor laptops like Ultrabooks. The performance will increase because so far you had to decide if you want a fast CPU or a fast GPU. Now you can have both. But it's still around 15TDP so you can't expect anything close to what actual high end laptops deliver.

In big gaming laptops you will have dedicated GPUs anyway so the poroblem of having to choose between one or another doesn't even come up.

its useing "HBM2" as onboard memory (expensive still, faster than GDDR5/6).... this wont just be for ultra thins.

It ll be thiner than throwing in a discrete nvidia mobile gpu, but be able to perform as such basically.

This more than just the low end of performance spectrum, this could eat away at nvidia's laptop gpu sales.

 

I see this as Intel wanting to do like Nvidia 1060+ level's of graphics in laptops.

And future laptops below that level, you wont find a nvidia geforce inside laptops from Intel.

Naturally AMD will do their own thing so.. yeah, its gonna eat away at nvidia laptop market.

Which basically means the only laptops with nvidia gpus in them, might end up being the really high end gameing laptops.

It's using just one single stack of HBM2, limiting the bandwith to something around 250GB/s, so about the same as an RX 580. However due to the size of those chips that means it has 4-8 GiB of HBM2 RAM as LLC, which should be more than enough to fuel the graphics part of the combo chip. If they added a second stack they actually could have used it as unified memory without the need for any additional DDR4 Dimms (though not sure if Windows would accept such a configuration out of the box)