frozentundra123456
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The use case for this? Places where the iGPU is both good enough and attractive. So maybe legitimate small gaming machines if it works, and very likely Apple as they really like iGPU's for the iMacs/mini's etc.
There's enough power budget here that were they using something as efficient as say Maxwell it'd be hitting 750ti ish levels on their 14nm process.
Apple, sure I can see that. Otherwise, I dont know. It depends on the performance of the igpu and the price of the chip. Now if the performance of the igpu is significantly better than Kaveri, sure one might be willing to pay the "intel tax". But the more I look at the APU tests on game.gpu, the more I think it will be lucky to be even equal to Kaveri at a much higher price. Even if you double HD4600 performance, you would not have a clear lead over A10 7850K except in a few cpu limited games.
Now if they wanted to really stick it to AMD, they could price it at Kaveri levels and have a much better cpu and probably equal igpu. But we all know there is no way that will happen, since the normal quads are more expensive already than Kaveri. If the price were right, it would be ideal for steamboxes too.