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It was cooperation that couldn't last long, as ever since its release, a lot of AMD Radeon staff quickly moved to Intel. We're talking about Kaby Lake-G, you know the hybrid Intel processor with a Radeon GPU.
Obviously Intel is working hard on their own new GPU architecture (with that AMD Radeon staff), and as such, it is not really a surprise that the collaboration inebtween Intel and AMD on this front now comes to an end. With a product notification Intel now officially ends Kaby Lake-G. Kaby Lake-G was a CPU linked with an interconnect towards an AMD GPU, a single package with products of two sworn enemies.
Update: In another product change notification all Kaby Lake chips have been given the status 'Discontinued'. We think Intel might be clearing up room on the 14nm node for other processors.
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#5718651 Posted on: 10/09/2019 05:22 PM
Willing to bet this is because of Xe development.
Willing to bet this is because of Xe development.
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#5718699 Posted on: 10/09/2019 07:20 PM
Sourcing chips from your competition seems like a dead-end anyways (not taking anything away from the quality of the product itself). I would tend to agree with you. The intel igpu was due for an overhaul some time ago (Iris was better, but still kinda meh), but they certainly might as well take full advantage of their new graphics chips and designs. These kaby lake-g chips seemed like more of a "proof of concept" design then an actual long term solution from the start........they are super cool though. Would not be surprised to see a very similar chip package with a Xe chips instead of Vega.
Willing to bet this is because of Xe development.
Sourcing chips from your competition seems like a dead-end anyways (not taking anything away from the quality of the product itself). I would tend to agree with you. The intel igpu was due for an overhaul some time ago (Iris was better, but still kinda meh), but they certainly might as well take full advantage of their new graphics chips and designs. These kaby lake-g chips seemed like more of a "proof of concept" design then an actual long term solution from the start........they are super cool though. Would not be surprised to see a very similar chip package with a Xe chips instead of Vega.
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#5718714 Posted on: 10/09/2019 08:06 PM
What doesn't help is I'm pretty sure these chips were only used by Intel for their NUC. If Apple used them, it would have been different seeing Apple is pretty Pro Intel cpu and AMD gpu.
Sourcing chips from your competition seems like a dead-end anyways (not taking anything away from the quality of the product itself). I would tend to agree with you. The intel igpu was due for an overhaul some time ago (Iris was better, but still kinda meh), but they certainly might as well take full advantage of their new graphics chips and designs. These kaby lake-g chips seemed like more of a "proof of concept" design then an actual long term solution from the start........they are super cool though. Would not be surprised to see a very similar chip package with a Xe chips instead of Vega.
What doesn't help is I'm pretty sure these chips were only used by Intel for their NUC. If Apple used them, it would have been different seeing Apple is pretty Pro Intel cpu and AMD gpu.
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#5718781 Posted on: 10/10/2019 12:57 AM
Yeah, i never saw them in anything but NUC's. Seems like it could have been thermally tame enough for a laptop or a nano/pico itx oem system.....but whatever. I was pretty impressed with the ones i used. Would make an awesome media center, hell it made a great mac replacement.
What doesn't help is I'm pretty sure these chips were only used by Intel for their NUC. If Apple used them, it would have been different seeing Apple is pretty Pro Intel cpu and AMD gpu.
Yeah, i never saw them in anything but NUC's. Seems like it could have been thermally tame enough for a laptop or a nano/pico itx oem system.....but whatever. I was pretty impressed with the ones i used. Would make an awesome media center, hell it made a great mac replacement.
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#5719401 Posted on: 10/11/2019 09:39 AM
Was tempted to pickup a 7700K as an upgrade to my 6600K, but the prices are still crazy for a 4 core chip, this will likely push them higher.
New motherboard it is then!
Was tempted to pickup a 7700K as an upgrade to my 6600K, but the prices are still crazy for a 4 core chip, this will likely push them higher.
New motherboard it is then!
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#5719496 Posted on: 10/11/2019 02:31 PM
Few days ago I had to run live diagnostics and tune my old 1999 Camaro LS1 with HP Tuners software. I never had a problem with the quad core Atom processor. I forgot what model but It's one of the last Atom's that INTEL made for Laptops. Mind you I don't use the internet with it.................................. Well Windows 10 Defender was updating and everything was fine. So I do a full scan and notice my laptop was running slow and freezing up and finally I had to restart it the hard way. Well again it was pegged at 100% right when I logged in again. The CPU got super hot which never does.
How did I fix it? I had to use AIRPLANE mode quickly before it ran slow and or permanently freeze up. Bam from 100% usage it went back to it's normal low percentage. What's my point? Everyday I hate INTEL more and more. INTEL deserves this karma with AMD breathing on their neck.
Few days ago I had to run live diagnostics and tune my old 1999 Camaro LS1 with HP Tuners software. I never had a problem with the quad core Atom processor. I forgot what model but It's one of the last Atom's that INTEL made for Laptops. Mind you I don't use the internet with it.................................. Well Windows 10 Defender was updating and everything was fine. So I do a full scan and notice my laptop was running slow and freezing up and finally I had to restart it the hard way. Well again it was pegged at 100% right when I logged in again. The CPU got super hot which never does.
How did I fix it? I had to use AIRPLANE mode quickly before it ran slow and or permanently freeze up. Bam from 100% usage it went back to it's normal low percentage. What's my point? Everyday I hate INTEL more and more. INTEL deserves this karma with AMD breathing on their neck.
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#5719649 Posted on: 10/11/2019 09:19 PM
Was tempted to pickup a 7700K as an upgrade to my 6600K, but the prices are still crazy for a 4 core chip, this will likely push them higher.
New motherboard it is then!
If you only buy new then the prices do seem high, i picked mine up in Feb 2018 for £215, the seller wanted £250 but i offered him £215 and had no problem accepting, i then spent another £15 to get it delidded, i too upgraded directly from an i5 6600k and am very happy, for gaming the i7 7700k will be your best bet as the boost from the 8700k, 9700k or even the 9900k in most of todays games is minimal
Was tempted to pickup a 7700K as an upgrade to my 6600K, but the prices are still crazy for a 4 core chip, this will likely push them higher.
New motherboard it is then!
If you only buy new then the prices do seem high, i picked mine up in Feb 2018 for £215, the seller wanted £250 but i offered him £215 and had no problem accepting, i then spent another £15 to get it delidded, i too upgraded directly from an i5 6600k and am very happy, for gaming the i7 7700k will be your best bet as the boost from the 8700k, 9700k or even the 9900k in most of todays games is minimal
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I used a couple of these to replace a couple of aging mac mini's that the owner thought were "awesome"......and i am pleased to say the NUC blew the mac mini away. Pretty slick gear.