Apple 2016 laptops will have AMD GPUs
Makes sense, we have heard about a full nvidia 1080 gpu coming to notebooks, but those class of notebooks are extremely rare to see. The most common notebook gpu on the nvidia side is the 960m (the non budget gaming notebooks, that is where tolerable performance parts start), and starting with smaller die gpus gets amd ahead of the pack when it comes to offering lower tdp gpu options.
I wonder what kind of performance the mobile variations will have? They can use both polaris 10 and 11 in notebooks depending on dimensions and thermals.
For a while not it has been suggested that Nvidia would have a role in the next generation Apple notebooks or desktop, workstation processors, but it seems that the outfit has not even got a walk-on part in the marketing show. Fudzilla's deep throats have confirmed that AMD, or rather its Radeon Technology Group won another round of Apple refreshes.
MacBook Pro with Polaris is in the works. This is probably because Polaris 11, which is the smaller of two chips is really thin. This helps Apple create thinner and lighter notebooks. There might be some more MacBook based designs where we will get to see the Polaris architecture in action.
Makes sense, we have heard about a full nvidia 1080 gpu coming to notebooks, but those class of notebooks are extremely rare to see. The most common notebook gpu on the nvidia side is the 960m (the non budget gaming notebooks, that is where tolerable performance parts start), and starting with smaller die gpus gets amd ahead of the pack when it comes to offering lower tdp gpu options.
I wonder what kind of performance the mobile variations will have? They can use both polaris 10 and 11 in notebooks depending on dimensions and thermals.