Features - Roy Taylor blog: The importance of AMD APU as a category

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Will Dedicated GPUs eventually be phased out in favour of APU integrated graphics?

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To the AMD folks,is it possible you can update your product webpages with the maximum operating temperatures of the PD based CPUs:

http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUResult.aspx

The BD based ones,have the temperatures,not the PD based ones. Practically this is a problem,when doing AMD builds as you cannot say whether the CPU is operating in safe temperatures at times,especially for SFF builds. Also,for overclockers having no indication of such temperatures is problematic as you understand.

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Will Dedicated GPUs eventually be phased out in favour of APU integrated graphics?

That's only going to happen when the distinction between "GPU" and "CPU" disappears. While AMD (and NVidia of course) continue to ship a graphics part that outperforms it's APU graphics core there will always be folks who will buy them. And of course, there needs to be a choice for those gamers for whom Intel integrated graphics are not capable enough.

Plus, and this is my person slant on it, with your discrete GPU's you can pair up units - CrossFire, SLi - to get increased performance. And it'd be a dark day for consumer choice if GPU's were phased out in favour of APU's. Not that I think this is likely.