Seems like if you want to catch the wave, it's really already here. Not sure what this thing can do, and hope to find out next year, but local AI is going to be a killer app.
The NPU is reportedly slower than the IGP (just like in Apple devices) and restricted in what it can do. Both it and the GPU are bottlenecked by the 128 bit memory bus anyway. The 7840HS is just not fast in generative AI, even in the best case scenario.
Halo Strix's memory bus will be twice as wide, higher speed, and the GPU will be much bigger. It will be closer to a small GPU with a huge VRAM pool, rather than a dreadfully slow IGP.
Halo Strix's memory bus will be twice as wide, higher speed, and the GPU will be much bigger. It will be closer to a small GPU with a huge VRAM pool, rather than a dreadfully slow IGP.