First data on the AMD APUs at the company's Financial Analyst Day conference, certify that they will have integrated AMD Vega graphics and that they will consume much less.
We are following live the AMD Financial Analyst Day conference, where AMD is giving some touches of what they expect for the rest of the year and what they plan to launch until next 2020. Among the highlights so far has been the confirmation that the AMD Ryzen 3 arrived during Q3 2017, something that we already had in mind and something more important, the first reliable data of the AMD APUs based on AMD Ryzen and AMD Vega.
The AMD Ryzen APUs were rumored to integrate AMD Vega graphics, but this has been confirmed at the AMD conference at this time, therefore it is great news, since with an APU in theory, you can play without major problems, it which will lower the costs of entry gaming equipment. According to the data, they will be 50% more powerful than their predecessors in terms of computing and they will be 40% more powerful graphically and are expected to consume 50% less than their predecessors, which will allow the life of these processors to be extended.
No more data has been officially released, but it is foreseeable that the most powerful version of these processors has at least four cores and it is said that they would have between four and eight processing threads, the most powerful version of AMD, of course , but there is no data to ensure these data. These APUs, as we said, are intended for entry-level gaming equipment, multiple solutions that allow great savings and also for portable equipment. Surely these processors allow some kind of special communication between the integrated graphics and a dedicated graphics also based on Vega that we can install.
It is logical given that it would be relatively easier to reach a certain performance and reducing consumption with Vega than with Polaris, which could be a bit more forced to reach the same level and in passing they throw another shovel of earth to the integrated graphics solutions of intel ! ...
Personally, I must say that Intel's integrated solutions are simply for general office systems and for specific moments. Some time ago I broke the graphics and while I was with the RMA (he caught me on a bridge, five days without being able to play, what an ordeal), I pulled with the integrated graphics. I thought about getting the processor without iGPU, but look, being far-sighted helped me in that case. I knew that with that iGPU you couldn't play games, but I could keep working.
Yes, I agree ... they get you out of a hurry, but how good it would be if that office iGPU, so to speak, were on the level of the next VEGA integrated even a little less! ... minimum to play fluently in 720p titles not very demanding or with some quality settings!