Comment on AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mind you that it can get these frame rates at the low setting. While this is pretty damn impressive for a APU, it’s still a very niche market type of APU at this point and I don’t see this getting all that much traction myself.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I think the opposite is true. Discrete graphics cards are on the way out, SoCs are the future. There are just too many disadvantages to having a discrete GPU and CPU each with it’s own RAM. We’ll see SoCs catch up and eventually overtake PCs with discrete components. Especially with the growth of AI applications.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People will be building dedicated AI PCs.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 8 months ago
They may build dedicated PCs for training, but those models will be used everywhere. All computers will need to have hardware capable of fast inference on large models.
Corgana@startrek.website 8 months ago
I agree, especially with the prices of graphics card being what they are. The 8700G can also fit in a significantly smaller case.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 8 months ago
Unified memory is also huge for performance of AI tasks. Especially with more specialized accelerators being integrated into SoCs. CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, Video encoder/decoders, they can all access the same RAM with zero overhead. You can decode a video, have the GPU preprocess the image, then feed it to the neural engine for whatever kind of ML task, not limited by the low bandwidth of the PCIe bus or any latency due to copying data back and forth.
My predictions: Nvidia is going to focus more and more on the high-end AI market with dedicated AI hardware while losing interest in the consumer market. AMD already has APUs, they will do the next logical step and move towards full SoCs. Apple is already in that market, and seems to be getting serious about their GPUs, I expect big improvement there in the coming years. No clue what Intel is up to though.