that’s just insane. even more so considering i went from a GTX 1050 (given to me for free in 2019) to an RTX 2060 Super just several months ago. so this integrated graphics is faster than my last video card.
Truth be told a 1050 is a long time back isn’t it.
yes it’s very old, but my point is that it can compete with a discrete graphics card, perhaps as opposed to intel’s offerings.
Well intels can also compete with a discrete gpu, just much older ones :D.
I wonder why GTA was higher on the 1050ti
Can’t wait for desktop APU with EXPO ram enable. A man can dream right?
It’s always neat to see occasional IGP vs. dGPU comparisons like this, if for nothing else then as a sort of barometer of IGP progress.
As always, the numbers indicate that the major Achilles’ heel of IGPs remains memory bandwidth. The 780M even seems like it could perform a tier better than implied here - in the ballpark of the legendary GTX 1060/RX 480 GPUs - if only it could fetch more data more quickly. The revelation isn’t exactly surprising, as there already exists basically a 780M in dGPU form in the RX 6400 (also 12 CUs, just paired with GDDR6 memory) that performs right in that range.
Well Can It Punk?
theres still more headroom since this is TDP limited to 45W right? what if a full desktop APU with 65W, would it perform better?
Based on Minisforum official page - this CPU is actually rated for 70W.
Rx 6400 is the theoretical maximum performance to come out of a 780m APU (Both have 12 rdna 2.0 cores), right?
Speculating on a hyper overclocked 8000g isn’t that great if you think like this.
What is even more mind blowing is that the 10 Terraflop architecture in the PS5 slim is an APU. AMD could go so much further with APU gpu performance if they really wanted to.
The 780m has 8 teraflops but is limited by memory bandwidth
The 1050 Ti has not aged well, so a low bar to clear. If one wishes to play older games and not get a neutered experience, the 1050 Ti will probably crush it, like in GTA5.
He mentions desktop pcs as being different, but ignore the comparison to laptops. Those two have roughly the same volume, with the laptop coming with a screen, keyboard, portability. There are $800 4060 laptops that will run circles around the sub 1650 performance. Needing this much cpu performance and poor graphics is a niche within a niche. I find the fascination with these mini-pcs to be odd. They remind me of the tunnel vision that reviewers seem to have with handhelds where they don’t look broadly at the market. Integrated graphics are always going to be turds. Sub $300, maybe it has a place. $630 is a hell no.