APU Question

[Arman276]

Hi

 

Linus's new video recommends an APU for the mid-range gaming set up

I'm still new to computers, but I don't get this.

If we will use a GPU like, say 1070 Ti, are we paying extra for the integrated GPU that is in the APU, which we won't even use? Or does it have some benefit still?

[Mira Yurizaki]

This is the question that we've been asking Intel for years on the high-end. Probably.

 

Anyway, you can still use the APU for things like having a secondary display output if you maxed out the ones on your video card or for compute acceleration tasks. But for the vast majority of people, putting a video card in an APU system effectively renders the iGPU redundant and unused.

[Arman276]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

This is the question that we've been asking Intel for years on the high-end. Probably.

 

Anyway, you can still use the APU for things like having a secondary display output if you maxed out the ones on your video card or for compute acceleration tasks. But for the vast majority of people, putting a video card in an APU system effectively renders the iGPU redundant and unused.

dang, thanks

 

He recommended the Ryzen 5 2600 in the video. Is there a pure CPU only thing that is about the equivalent of value to that without the integrated GPU (so I can not buy extra features that I dont need)?

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, Arman276 said:

dang, thanks

 

He recommended the Ryzen 5 2600 in the video. Is there a pure CPU only thing that is about the equivalent of value to that without the integrated GPU (so I can not buy extra features that I dont need)?

Ryzen 5 2600 only has a CPU component. It's the Ryzen 3 2200G and 5 2400G (and some other lower end ones I can't think of) that are APUs for the Socket AM4 platform.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Well for ryzen, amd makes 2 dies. There is one with 2 ccx's and one with 1 ccx and a igpu. With the ryzen 3's that only have 4 cores, you might as well get a igpu. You are using the same die space as the other option, and there aren't enough of the chips being made to make a 4 core die worth it.

[Arman276]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Ryzen 5 2600 only has a CPU component. It's the Ryzen 3 2200G and 5 2400G (and some other lower end ones I can't think of) that are APUs for the Socket AM4 platform.

oooh thats what the G means, thx