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hinch said:

Didn't think we would see a iGPU in mainstream AMD CPU any time soon and here we are with a RDNA 2 GPU built in and DDR5. Interested to see how the GPU performs in games.. Hopefully something on par or faster than a 1050. Excited to see what Phoenix is capable as well.. If GPD or someone else makes a new handheld based on that that would be awesome.

Well, I was expecting it to happen to come with DDR5, as they really benefit a lot from the increased bandwidth. And with the chiplet design, including a GPU chiplet somewhere under the heatspreader was something I was expecting to see with Zen 4, and it looks like it is happening.

It's also a big deal for AMD and very bad news for Intel, as companies are more and more switching to integrated GPUs and ditching the entry-level GPUs as pixel-pushers they had used for the last ~20 years now. Integrating a GPU chip(let) on the chip will open the doors to deal with many companies and their suppliers. And if AMD is still leading in SPEC benchmarks, then Intel will see many integrators starting to offer and push AMD systems to their old clients.

Now with Ice-Lake SP also only going for 1p and 2p server sockets and foregoing the 4p/8p options, the only markets that AMD would then still need to tap into are the sub-15W chips and a own variant of intel's NUC computers, which also become increasingly popular in companies.

Maybe Van Gogh and Dragon Crest will be set to fight in the sub-15W segment; an almost halved mobile Zen2 die (so with 4c/8t and only 4 CU but still with dual-channel RAM) would certainly do well in that segment and could punch Intels new Tremont Atoms into oblivion.