[c2h5oh]

APUs are going to replace low end video cards, because they no longer make economical or technical sense.

Historically those cards had narrow memory bus and about a quarter or less video memory of high end (not even halo) cards from the same generation.

That narrow memory bus puts their max memory bandwidth at a comparable level to desktop DDR5 with 2 DIMMs. At the same time quarter of high end is just 4GB VRAM which is not enough for low details for many games and prevents upscaling/frame gen from working.

From manufacturing standpoint low end GPUs aren't great either - memory controllers, video output and a bunch of other non-compute components don't scale with process node.

At the same time unified memory and bypassing PCIE benefits igpus greatly. You don't have to build an entire card, power delivery, cooler - you just slightly beef up existing ones.

tl;dr; sub-200 dollas GPUs are dead and will be replaced by APUs. I won't be surprised if they will start nibbling at lower mid-range market too in the near future.

[rcarmo]

My main gaming rig (for admittedly not very intensive games) has been a 7000 series Ryzen APU with a 780M, and my next one will also be an APU. It makes zero economic sense to build a discrete CPU system for casual gaming, even if I believe that APU prices will be artificially inflated to "cozy up" to low-end discrete GPU prices for a while to maximize profits.

[pjmlp]

Which is why for the games I play, a graphics workstation laptop like Thinkpad P series is much more useful, including GPGPU coding outside gaming, without being an heavyweight circus laptop whose battery lasts half-hour.

[kllrnohj]

> tl;dr; sub-200 dollas GPUs are dead and will be replaced by APUs

that already happened like 5+ years ago. The GT 1030 never got an update, so Nvidia hasn't made an entry level GPU since. Intel kinda did with ARC, but that was almost more a dev board