The bigger news that has just dropped is that Intel and AMD have reportedly signed a new contract that will see AMD Radeon GPU technology inside of Intel's next-gen CPUs. AMD would provide Radeon GPU technology for Intel's integrated graphics, after years of Intel trying to make it work - and it looks like they just can't get their GPU game up to scratch, so they're going to their main rival... AMD.
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The licensing deal between AMD and Intel is signed and done for putting AMD GPU tech into Intel's iGPU
This doesn't mean Intel CPUs will literally have AMD iGPUs. Intel may just be licensing the architecture to make their own tweaks and changes. If this news is true, I expect Intel's iGPUs will still use Intel's own drivers, etc..
Depends on the nature of the deal. If they're just consulting AMD for IP, all they have to do is provide AMD with some information about design of Skylake and the other direct P6 descendants in exchange. They still have a process advantage no matter what stuff AMD can salvage from Intel's designs.
If they're actually directly licensing AMD tech, it's still probably cheaper for them to pay AMD a sizeable wad of cash from their war chest than it is to sustain an entire RnD and driver support team whose efforts haven't really borne any great fruit despite several years of attempts.
I am not sure of the nature of the agreement but i expect intel to license AMD ip in some form and not actually integrate radeons in their CPUs. What intel did with nvidia before, that is.
Can this turn out like x86_64? After getting the IP, etc, Intel with it's superior fabs and R & D keep improving it and selling over priced dGPUs? And AMD's graphics division will get into the same state as it's CPU division is in?
All of this could be a rumor? Will there be any official confirmation?
They were in talks for some time now, AMD and Intel were sharing portfolio for various CPU components. iGPU is a part of CPU now, this can be also a cross license of some sort, like X86/AMD64. I don't think this will improve intel graphics by any means xD.
It really is garbage when graphics settings are set on high.
And i really mean garbage, that many OCN users are forced to buy with their Core i5's.
I don't see how this would be an example of Intel giving up. AMD has better GPU tech. Intel has better memory controllers. Sounds like a way for Intel to spit out more capable parts while being able to focus on other aspects.
The real question is why AMD would give up the only real advantage they've had in a very long time.
The only currency for AMD fanboys is INTEL chip secrets?
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AMD should have Intel make AMD CPUs in Intel fabs on the Intel 14nm p
I don't see how this would be an example of Intel giving up. AMD has better GPU tech. Intel has better memory controllers. Sounds like a way for Intel to spit out more capable parts while being able to focus on other aspects.
The real question is why AMD would give up the only real advantage they've had in a very long time.
Well, they cross license CPU tech, it's not out of this world that they would do the same for GPU tech, although as has been said already, it won't have such far reaching results as Radeon GPUs being directly put in there.
Both companies have an interest in keeping x86 performance competitive on the mobile side and that means having a competitive CPU+GPU solution nowadays.
Anyway, with all the effort that Intel has put into their iGPUs in the past 5 years, it's not going to be a night and day change, it's more likely they'll have access to stuff related to HBM2 (that 128 MB of L4 cache on Broadwell's Iris Pro is not cheap and at the same time it's not really enough to get all the performance out of an iGPU), FreeSync, some VR stuff, etc.
Anyway, I'd say that Intel's iGPUs will continue to be their own thing, with some added benefits from AMD's tech. In that sense they will always be the casual, ready to go choice. The major advantage that both AMD and Nvidia have is their drivers and backlog knowledge which is essential to making the PC gaming catalogue work.
Why would Intel need and for adaptive sync? Does and own it?
Sounds like they would need them for Freesync. License the software and call it a different name.
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