Who here would honestly drop $600+ on an AMD APU with 8 Zen3 cores, 40 RDNA2 CUs, and 8GB of HBM2? (In a normal GPU market?). Perhaps a powerhouse APU does have applicability somewhere, but I'm not sure if it's in the enthusiast PC space, but I could be wrong. Here's the big problem, UPGRADABILITY! Who here is ACTUALLY willing to drop $600 on an APU knowing that you're stuck with that CPU/GPU combo forever? The main draw of the desktop PC space is UPGRADABILITY, and that's a major reason PC people don't like Apple products. While I've always wanted a powerhouse APU from AMD, basically like the Xbox Series X in CU count but with 8GB of integrated HBM2 as VRAM and L4 Cache depending on CPU/iGPU need, and wouldn't care if it needed a socket the size of threadripper. Sep 7th 2022 Apple to Source 3D NAND Memory from Chinese YMTC (36)Īdd your own comment 60 Comments on Apple M1 Max Beats GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU in GFXBench 5.0, but Doesn't Shine in Geekbench 26 to 50 of 59 Go to 2 3 Previous Next #26 Aquinus.Mar 17th 2022 Apple's Graphics Performance Claims Proven Exaggerated by Mac Studio Reviews (151).Oct 18th 2022 Apple Introduces the Powerful Next-Generation Apple TV 4K (17).Oct 18th 2022 Apple Introduces Next-Generation iPad Pro, Supercharged by the M2 Chip (28).Oct 18th 2022 Apple unveils completely redesigned iPad in four vibrant colors (36).Dec 29th 2020 A Christmas Miracle: 500,000 NVIDIA RTX 3080 Cards Found in Lost Shipping Container (103).Oct 17th 2022 Apple Terminates Plans to Use YMTC 3D NAND Chips Amid Political Pressure (22).Oct 12th 2022 Microsoft Updates Surface PC Models with the Latest Hardware (16).Jun 6th 2020 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Pictured? (225).Sep 16th 2022 Report: Apple to Move a Part of its Embedded Cores to RISC-V, Stepping Away from Arm ISA (23).
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