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ONE YEAR LATER: Intel Arc GPU Drivers, Bugs, & Huge Improvements (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A renewed focus on improving iGPUs also threatens some of Nvidia's low end dGPUs in laptops - customers don't have to choose between very poor performance iGPU or stepping up to a dGPU

AMD has had iGPUs in laptops for a long time now, and the better CPUs for more than a couple of the past few years, yet laptops are still sold with Nvidia dGPUs even when they have decent AMD iGPUs.

It might kill the lowest of the lowest end of laptop dGPUs, but I think Nvidia's pricing is doing that faster than Intel's success with Arc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The issue with AMD laptops is availability and the mixing of generations under similar SKU numbers. There's only a handful of Zen4 laptops in the wild, and they're mixed in with Zen2 and Zen3 parts, leading to a confusing experience for the average buyer. So, people will either go for an Intel laptop, or find an Nvidia dGPU laptop for the 'upgrade'.