Alright /g/, with Raven Ridge coming, let's discuss Integrated Graphics / APU's.Why are they so reliable /g/? We constantly hear about dedicated GPU's shitting the bed, specially on laptops, but how come we never hear about integrated graphics failing? Are they built like a tank?Iris Pro is a few years behind in performance, but look at the size of this thing, it's fucking tiny, it's pretty impressive actually. Do you think Raven Ridge will also be reliable? Do you think it will outperform Iris Pro?
>>107703693Because if your Integrated died, you would think your CPU has died completely, that's why there are no reports of it. Though it's a nice to have if your cpu has.
>>107703693I'm hoocked yo AMD because superior build quality
Isn't raven ridge the old apu?I have an 8700G and its all I need for any sort of gaming at 1440p/60hz and 60fps. I'm running it on a passively cooled system even. I'm not sure if I'd say they're built like a tank, its more that they have massive thermal headroom compared to what people have become accustomed to. When I had the 5800G, it sat at 85C for hours. Still works fine, just have it in the basement PC now.
>>107703693>We constantly hear about dedicated GPU's shitting the bedI haven't. And my GPUs never died and I bought 2 after mining shenanigans.
it copuld be the fact that dust can't kill a igpu as it doesnt have any exposed partsthe dGPU has exposed parts and if dust get in there in can short over time.
>>107703693Some Bulldozer APUs were notoriously unreliable.
They're great, check out the Ultra 7 258v on the msi claw and X1 air. Runs at very low tdps with minimal performance loss.
>>107703693>with Raven Ridge coming,Is this 2018? Raven Ridge is Zen1.
>>107703693I haven't heard about dgpus shitting the bed regularly since like 2009, and any bga chip would inevitably shit the bed, it was just more frequently the shitty chipsets didn't run as hot. Things only seem to die now from running hot as fuck, mfgs trying to make everything thin as a playing card thermal throttling every chip at 100°, these bga soldering failures were happing at 50°. Buy something well made and take care of it and it basically won't ever die
>>107703693a dgpu has a complex pcb, memory modules, VRMs. an igpu is just the chip
