It's nice that it might get close to matching a GT 1030, if a GT 1030 was a GPU card you would actually consider buying.
But I would never consider buying GT 1030 card.
But I would still love to see this in a Mac Mini where a dGPU hasn't been an option in years.
I don't understand what exactly you are trying to say....which gpu would you prefer then for 25$ or 80$??..(2200g ,2400g and pentium are 99$/180$/75$ respectably).. remember we are talking about sub 200$ CPU & GPU combo for budget gaming..there are not many options on the table.
Depending on the use case I would. But yeah the GT 1030 GPU wouldn't normally be my first choice either. And I agree that 2200G and 2400G will be good thing for SFF and AIO systems.
Agreed.
for the 10th time, AMD avoided to show a direct game comparison with GT1030, this is something they always did in the past, if the numbers favor them, there is really no much to add, to me it cant match it and maybe it cant get close enoght either. What would be sad because is a big regresion in IGP vs dGPU perf ratio.
And those firestrike numbers(what is a best case escenario) are not that good vs GT1030, and to counter that AMD decided to add two overclocked results what to me it means its bad.
Why should they?? AMDs product is an Apu, it should be compared to other APUs, which it is now the market leader (in regards to graphics mated to a decent cpu)...why would you expect a company to advertise their products in a worse situation than they have to?
In the price range to compete..you literally have to buy the crappiest cheapest bespoke descrete options from 2 leading competitor's...even then whilst you may get higher gaming performance...you lose out on CPU performance...on future upgrades to 7nm...on chassis space and likely power consumption?..small extra effort/inconvenience...all these things add up for some people/OEMs.
Not to mention R3 1200 Is now about the same price as the Pentiums..before 2200g launches...what stops you from mating a dgpu to either the 2200g or the cheaper R3 1200??...
Usually, all- in -one tech products are more expensive..as you pay for the miniaturisation and technology to combine it into one no nonsense package, before now there was large sacrifices on either CPU or GPU (or both)...this is the first time I can remember that you get an APU with almost no serious compromises for its segment...no obvious downsides....each part of the Apu offers performance expected in its price and market segment...whilst being fully upgradeable into future products.
It's a win win.
Besides, not everyone is a gamer...office computers are going to love these little APUs.