<story><title>The Snapdragon 855&apos;s iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/05/01/inside-the-snapdragon-855s-igpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netbioserror</author><text>iGPUs have climbed high enough that they are overpowered for &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; tasks like video watching and playing browser games. They can even do 1080p 60 FPS gaming to a decently high standard. And we&amp;#x27;ve already proven via ARM that RISC architectures are more than ready for everything from embedded to high-power compute. What happens when iGPUs get good enough for 1440p 120 FPS high-end gaming? Game visuals have plateaued on the rasterization front. Once iGPUs are good enough, nobody will have much reason to get anything other than a tiny mini PC. The last frontier for GPUs will be raw supercomputing. Basically all PCs from there on out will just be mini machines.&lt;p&gt;The next few years will be very interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t worry, no matter how good hardware gets, you can rest assured bad software will push it to the limits and further push the minimum system requirements to run anything as basic as a note taking app or music player.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Andy_and_Bill%27s_law&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Snapdragon 855&apos;s iGPU</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/05/01/inside-the-snapdragon-855s-igpu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>netbioserror</author><text>iGPUs have climbed high enough that they are overpowered for &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; tasks like video watching and playing browser games. They can even do 1080p 60 FPS gaming to a decently high standard. And we&amp;#x27;ve already proven via ARM that RISC architectures are more than ready for everything from embedded to high-power compute. What happens when iGPUs get good enough for 1440p 120 FPS high-end gaming? Game visuals have plateaued on the rasterization front. Once iGPUs are good enough, nobody will have much reason to get anything other than a tiny mini PC. The last frontier for GPUs will be raw supercomputing. Basically all PCs from there on out will just be mini machines.&lt;p&gt;The next few years will be very interesting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>Memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck holding iGPUs back, the conventional approach to CPU RAM is absolutely nowhere near fast enough to keep a big GPU fed. I think the only way to break through that barrier is to do what Apple is doing - move all of the memory on-package and, unfortunately, give up the ability to upgrade it yourself.</text></comment>