Fun fact, Xbox Series APUs still has Garlic & Onion. Another one in a string of dumb Microsoft hardware decisions. So you get the double whammy of having to manually segment memory on Series S and it only has 7GBs of RAM.
Thanks Chester, another great dive and (for me) down memory lane with Trinity! One aspect of modern APUs I am curious about is if and how iGPU-assisted compute is actually implemented nowadays. Judging by the now-ubiquitous NPU blocks in designs from both AMD and Intel, the idea of GPU-assisted compute seems to have been abandoned (outside AI), but is it ? Would love to hear your and anyone else's take!
I haven't seen that much GPU compute offload even today, except for machine learning stuff and hardware accelerated video encode/decode. Obviously still used for a lot of scientific applications (plenty of supercomputer clusters come with GPUs), but that's not on client.
Fun fact, Xbox Series APUs still has Garlic & Onion. Another one in a string of dumb Microsoft hardware decisions. So you get the double whammy of having to manually segment memory on Series S and it only has 7GBs of RAM.
Loved my Llano A6-3400m. Gamed on it.
Thanks Chester, another great dive and (for me) down memory lane with Trinity! One aspect of modern APUs I am curious about is if and how iGPU-assisted compute is actually implemented nowadays. Judging by the now-ubiquitous NPU blocks in designs from both AMD and Intel, the idea of GPU-assisted compute seems to have been abandoned (outside AI), but is it ? Would love to hear your and anyone else's take!
I haven't seen that much GPU compute offload even today, except for machine learning stuff and hardware accelerated video encode/decode. Obviously still used for a lot of scientific applications (plenty of supercomputer clusters come with GPUs), but that's not on client.