Chaos theory

[wtourist]

Since Intel has choosen to put GPU's on their chip I had one of those thoughts.
Could AMD put out a video card that uses the Intel onchip processor on boards that Intel does not provide with video?
If they could and would, I think people would buy them just to annoy intel.
Oh yes!
Comments? Yes there are probably reasons that make it impossible ..

 

[Tak Ne]

You're asking if AMD will make a graphics card that uses the CPU but not the GPU on their new processors? All of them should do that as long as the motherboard has a PCIe slot.

If you're asking if AMD will make a video card that uses the Intel GPU? Theres no point as the Intel GPU is less powerful than almost all recent AMD cards.

A few of the ION2 (Atom with GPU) motherboards have on-board Nvidia GPUs.

 

[wtourist]

The point would be a great many people planning budget builds would have inexpensive access/use of onchip GPU that is being purposely omitted by Intel. It would also make it more likely someone would upgrade to an AMD (ATI) card/
Sigh on the other it would increase flexibility of Intel builds so maybe not good idea.

 

[Oldie]

So are you talking about a add-on card that would serve to channel the video signal on the APU?

Basically allowing people to use the integrated GPU on mainboards that don't natively support the video out?

I really doubt it would sell.

 

[wtourist]

Basically it would be a "which card" solution for people who want a motherboard with specific features and are denied use of video from that motherboard.
It would be a poke at Intel determination of board feature, especially in the H61 market, if it adds benefits beyond that offered by Intel boards with video.
More a poke at Intel than not.
ie a $60 H61 could use a $30 or $40 solution over $90 or $100 motherboard with video.
Yeah, too many reasonable solutions already. curses foiled again.
there are people upset about paying for a chip with video and not being able to use it.