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by hakfoo 1914 days ago
I wonder how much cross-pollination there is between the discrete GPU space and AMD's iGPUs.

They're probably selling a dozen Playstation or Xbox APUs for every one 6700XT dGPU. But by building a better dGPU today, they have the technology to make a better APU when it comes to bid out the PS6 and Xbox Series Q, or for the next generation Ryzen "G" APUs.

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"They're probably selling a dozen Playstation or Xbox APUs for every one 6700XT dGPU" This statement does not make sense today because it doesn't really matter what the demand is. They sell every single one that they produce...you can't buy either the PS5/Xbox nor 6000 cards right now because the supply is wayyyyy lower than the demand.

Also I am sure they share ideas and optimizations but I think overall it is a fairly different architecture. The APUs on the consoles as well as the ones they sell in laptops (or for OEM desktops) are chiplet based, similar to Ryzen. So they probably have smaller dies for GPU, CPU, and IO connected via something like Ryzen's Infinity Fabric (in contrast Intel and Apple put their GPU and CPU on the same die). Their dGPUs currently do not have this architecture although I have heard they want to move to this in the future since it has worked extremely well for ryzen.