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There are some technical things I feel are somewhat misrepresented:

1. Why don't AMD/Intel use a unified GPU/CPU memory setup like Apple? Because the big discrete gpus would be too big and hot to be part of the same chip as a cpu, and need faster memory than DDR4.

2. Zen3 is clocked at 5ghz: the best of them can turbo to 4.9 for a little bit, base clocks are ~3.4 to 3.8 depending on core count / model



> Why don't AMD/Intel use a unified GPU/CPU memory setup like Apple?

Well, they do, for like 10+ years now


There has been talk of using eGPUs with the M1 chips. Obviously there would be downside to having to move stuff over a slow Thunderbolt 3 connection but given that the GPU can be much bigger, how do you think that would play out?

Would that offer higher performance? If so on what kind of workloads?




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