I had done a report on AMD only last semester and one of the things I looked into most was this APU. People seem to be ignoring or I was misinformed about some of the benefits.
The combination of the CPU and GPU gets rid of the longest bottleneck in processing graphics - the CPU and GPU communicating with one another (Since they are one unit, duh).
This benefit would translate not just to graphic processing but also the space it would save within a system - one chip is smaller than two - the money it would save for various reasons and therefore probably retail for a lower price which we know is AMD's strategy for the most part.
So the way I read it was that this chip would be just all around better than anything else (faster, smaller, cheaper). The technology could be applied to games, lower frame-rates, but also to smartphones because of its space saving.
I know I feel like i described a fairy tale device but it is two years down the road so I didn't think it had to be wrong. Someone hold me?
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I had done a report on AMD only last semester and one of the things I looked into most was this APU. People seem to be ignoring or I was misinformed about some of the benefits.
The combination of the CPU and GPU gets rid of the longest bottleneck in processing graphics - the CPU and GPU communicating with one another (Since they are one unit, duh).
This benefit would translate not just to graphic processing but also the space it would save within a system - one chip is smaller than two - the money it would save for various reasons and therefore probably retail for a lower price which we know is AMD's strategy for the most part.
So the way I read it was that this chip would be just all around better than anything else (faster, smaller, cheaper). The technology could be applied to games, lower frame-rates, but also to smartphones because of its space saving.
I know I feel like i described a fairy tale device but it is two years down the road so I didn't think it had to be wrong. Someone hold me?