By: Paul (pavel.delete@this.noa-labs.com), November 3, 2020 1:52 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Anon (no.delete@this.thanks.com) on November 3, 2020 4:08 am wrote:
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> Really? Like what? 99.99% of non-gaming "consumer" use cases are covered by
> a basic integrated GPU. It needs to encode/decode video using dedicated hardware
> blocks (not general purpose shaders), and render Facebook smoothly.
>
> Consumers aren't running GPU accelerated workloads in Adobe software. Consumers aren't running
> non-gaming AR or VR on their PC. What other GPU heavy workloads does a standard consumer run?
Have you considered the possibility that they simply want it? You don't need to try rationalising every purchasing decision, especially when people have enough money, and simply want to buy a "mid-tier" PC?
Not to mention that a lot of CPUs are now coming without GPUs now, even Intel has reversed on this trend for upper-mid tier and above dies.
>
> Really? Like what? 99.99% of non-gaming "consumer" use cases are covered by
> a basic integrated GPU. It needs to encode/decode video using dedicated hardware
> blocks (not general purpose shaders), and render Facebook smoothly.
>
> Consumers aren't running GPU accelerated workloads in Adobe software. Consumers aren't running
> non-gaming AR or VR on their PC. What other GPU heavy workloads does a standard consumer run?
Have you considered the possibility that they simply want it? You don't need to try rationalising every purchasing decision, especially when people have enough money, and simply want to buy a "mid-tier" PC?
Not to mention that a lot of CPUs are now coming without GPUs now, even Intel has reversed on this trend for upper-mid tier and above dies.
