sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoValve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’kotaku.comexternal-linkmessage-square184linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarefestus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·18 days agoI don’t think DDR4 is significantly cheaper. Plus, they would have had to go a CPU generation back too then and I think the AMD CPUs of that generation had way worse integrated graphics, so now you’d need a dedicated GPU as well.
minus-squareEndlessNightmare@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoI haven’t been following the Steam Machine, but are they using integrated graphics for it?
minus-squareqaeta@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoLooks like a custom GPU configuration based on AMD hardware to me. So not an iGPU, but also not a mainline card.
I don’t think DDR4 is significantly cheaper. Plus, they would have had to go a CPU generation back too then and I think the AMD CPUs of that generation had way worse integrated graphics, so now you’d need a dedicated GPU as well.
I haven’t been following the Steam Machine, but are they using integrated graphics for it?
Looks like a custom GPU configuration based on AMD hardware to me. So not an iGPU, but also not a mainline card.