Quote from: Sharath Naik on November 23, 2023, 04:55:21Major battery life improvement.
We don't know anything for certain yet. Nothing has been released and independently tested / verified by 3rd parties. Just marketing slides by intel. The last leak stated it would be most efficient in 65w-95w laptops afaik. That doesn't sound very efficient to me when phoenix is in 30w handheld designs. I'm sure it'll be slightly more efficient at idle due to Big.Little core design. But who the duck buys a device for longer screen saver idling times? Seems it might actually be worse than Phoenix under high/max load which if true is gonna be disappointing.
Quote from: Sharath Naik on November 23, 2023, 04:55:2115hrs of video playback and 13700 processor performance, 1080p gaming what else do most want from their laptop?
If that's all you need why bother with a laptop in the first place? Phones/tablets are capable of that.
Quote from: Sharath Naik on November 23, 2023, 04:55:21The problem is now majority will not need expensive dgpu added to their laptop.
Again, the 'majority' have long moved onto tablets/smartphones/chromebooks to meet their basic needs that don't require dgpu.
For the rest that still need dGPUs, it's never enough. Every time there is some major improvement to iGPU's/APU's in general, the requirements of software / games goes up 7x thereby making them irrelevant again.
Quote from: Sharath Naik on November 23, 2023, 04:55:21If oems cared about consumers they would be giving options for ryzen 7940h with 4080 and 4090 all along, but no they limited it to mostly 4060.
Limited mostly over pricing probably. Probably saw the desktop RTX 4080 sales and were like how many people are gonna buy a 3k laptop? Cheaper to egpu with a RTX 4090 at that point. They really don't have much power over the situation.
Not mention those higher end 4080/4090 chips are bigger, more power hungry and run a lot more hotter. Just look at the 2023 G14 reviews, the 1 compact chassis they stuck it in. Not too sure I'd like to run it at those toasty temps long term.
Bigger problem is lack of Vram IMO. Hurts even more in AI/stable diffusion as well.
The reality of the situation is current gen small iGPU's still pale in comparison to almost any dGPU. A RTX 4050 is like 4x faster than Radeon 780m in some games. Even an ancient GTX 1060 is faster than the 780M.
Building a large iGPU chip that rivals current gen dGPUs is possible but will cost a ton of money, require serious economy of scale (reduce costs) and a strong software ecosystem (further subsidize h/w costs). There are only a few companies capable doing this. Maybe Microsoft or Valve. Although seeing how incompetent MS is at running the Xbox and surface division, doubtful they can. If Valve start building steam laptops, they could put pressure on AMD to supply more console like custom silicon, similar to steam deck except much more powerful!
So basically, blame/cry @ Valve (not OEMs which lack the necessary capability in the first place - not s/w companies) for not making this happen sooner. :)