Overall GPU Shipments Increased 9.3% From Last Quarter, AMD 8% Nvidia 30%
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Yuri57
It has nohing to do with crypto currency or gaming...
All the cloud service providers and HPC-s are upgrading to Volta.
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schmidtbag
At least in recent years, I find there to be an interesting correlation between Intel vs Nvidia marketshare.
I wouldn't say 100% of those 44% of users have their IGP go to waste. For example if this chart includes laptops (which it probably does) then Optimus/Enduro users are likely treated as Nvidia/AMD users, even though most of the time they probably use the Intel graphics.
Meanwhile, there are also some people who have many-display setups, where you use the Intel graphics to drive additional monitors that your discrete GPU doesn't have the connectors for.
Lastly, there are also the very niche users, who may primarily use a discrete GPU, but the Intel graphics are used for things like OpenCL or in REALLY niche cases, a hypervisor.
But otherwise, yes, the IGP is (in most cases) a waste of space, and it irritates me that users are paying for a good chunk of silicon that they may never use. This is usually why if I go for Intel with a discrete GPU, I tend to focus on Xeons, where many models trade the IGP for a bigger cache, among other features.
EDIT:
If maybe 2-3 years ago Intel released an overclockable 6-core i5 without an IGP (and in turn, lowering the price of it) I'd have bought it. Personally, I think all of their K series CPUs shouldn't contain IGPs.
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