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gdwatson on Nov 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel will ship processors with integrated AMD gra...

What's the gain over discrete GPUs in a desktop, where space and power are not at a premium the way they are in a laptop?

gmueckl on Nov 20, 2017 [–]

Omitting a bottleneck like the PCIe bus between the CPU and GPU makes memory sharing between the two much more viable. This allows a totally different kind of offloading of work from the CPU.

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