When will integrated graphics become so powerful that there will be no need of external graphic cards?
When they can simulate real-life level physics in real time.
So you upgrade by replacing a whole motherboard?
>>316451716
Never.
>>316451716
for most people there is no need
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>>316451716
The integrated cpu inside my 6700k is already more powerful than the mid-range gpu I had in 2010. For most gamers there's already no need for an external GPU since all they do is play shit like LoL and generic MMOs anyway.
>>316451716
Maybe if some kind of miracle microprocessor is invented that uses significantly less power comes along, but until then the thermal limitations of the materials in CPUs and GPUs will prevent high performance parts being combined on such a small package.
Never because of pricing and energy use.
>>316453071
>ending thread on own post
Where were you when ARM became an actual contender in processors?
>>316455832
>tablets vs laptops
Wow it's fucking nothing.
>>316455954
Well incase you're a complete simpleton i guess i can help.
That lowest core i5 gets a cinebench r15 score of around 250, that's about the same as a 2.6ghz core 2 quad.
>>316451716
It already happened, see "APU"
>>316456681
>core 2 quad
So only 7 years behind, great.
>>316457267
As a dual core equalling dual cores, it's very nearly on par.
An i5 gets about 600 points in cinebench. or about 12000 points in geekbench 3 (geekbench has a slight advantage on systems not running windows because of the scale of the OS)
All of this makes me far more interested in those ARM CPUs AMD was talking about.
>>316451716
Never since as time goes the needs will also increse, they'll never catch up.
>>316451716
>when will 1 chip be as good as 2 chips
18 months.
Why is Haswell so shit?
>>316458075
I honestly have no idea. Mobile processors see massive gains every time they jump to a new process but desktop CPUs see almost no improvement, even power consumption is roughly the same as sandybridge
>>316452106
If you upgrade every few years you need to replace it anyway.
>>316451716
APUs are already doing that in consoles but they have a very explicit API and has no legacy requirement, Devs only have single hardware spec to focus on and can easily optimize their game around that hardware. The APU on the current consoles only uses ultrabooks APUs with a slightly powerful GPU, the Desktop version are better but they still has legacy requirements and needed to use other APIs because fucking WINDOWS CERTS.
