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Darc Requiem said:

JEMC said:

I agree with the others, that Intel-Nvidia partnership came out of nowhere and it's unsettling. More so with Nvidia purchsing a part of Intel. Well, Nvidia couldn't make their own x86 CPUs because Intel refused to sell them a license and now they've managed to make Intel do the CPUs they want. What a time to be alive.

Also yes, this move does cast a dark shadow for Intel's ARC.

Meanwhile, AMD goes and launches the 7700 out of nowhere. Why? Why now? What's the point of this card?

To get rid of all the dies that couldn't hit at least 7700XT performance. With how high yields are at TSMC, they likely had very few dies with more than 6 bad CUs. Now they have enough to make a SKU, this will probably be OEM only. Any die with 40 to 53 functional CUs would have been set aside for this card.

But launching it more than two years after the launch of the RDNA3 GPUs and when AMD has already launched the 9060XTs makes it a difficult product to sell, as Boffer has pointed out.

Furthermore, AMD has the 9060, that is an OEM only GPU, at least for now, which puts this product in an even worse position.  

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

You know. Now that I think about it, this Nvidia-Intel partnership makes sense when you realize Nvidia has zero steak in the PC handheld market. Putting Nvidia GPUs in normal Intel CPU doesn't make much sense because then Intel cpus will cost a significant premium and be paired with an dedicated Nvidia or Radeon GPU anyway. Nvidia could try with Arm but as we seen from Qualcomms attempts, there's a lot of compatibility and driver issues there too. And while Intel has an APU already in the handheld space, drivers will always be an issue. But if Intel and Nvidia partner up and make an APU to combat the APUs that AMD has been making... Oh boy. 

I am sure it will still cost a premium but if Nvidia's current market share taught us anything, it's people are willing to pay extra for Nvidia.

That would be quite the gamble. Also, as the videocardz article from yesterday points out, it's not like the launch of the newest handheld PCs is going smoothly. By the time those hypothetical APUs could be ready, that market could have shrinked because of the missmanagement of the brands.