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    GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

    8-inch gaming UMPC previously was Intel Ice Lake only. Soon you can get Tiger Lake or AMD.
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    "PC Watch reckons the Intel version will be a better choice for gamers with the more powerful Intel Xe Graphics chip, but AMD will be a favoured choice for business, if someone might choose this device primarily for non-gaming tasks."

    Got to be honest I'd pick the AMD version for gaming. Intel have never show aptitude for decent drivers!
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    Re: GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

    Quote Originally Posted by cheesemp View Post
    "PC Watch reckons the Intel version will be a better choice for gamers with the more powerful Intel Xe Graphics chip, but AMD will be a favoured choice for business, if someone might choose this device primarily for non-gaming tasks."

    Got to be honest I'd pick the AMD version for gaming. Intel have never show aptitude for decent drivers!
    I dunno, AMD drivers are pretty horrible. Although I do like the new "driver only" option.

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    Re: GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

    How do they know the Intel Xe will be more powerful? It might also be horrendously power hungry like the Intel CPU?

    If you are playing on 1280 x 800 you won't need much, a cheap mid-range graphics chip will be more than good enough.

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    Re: GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

    Quote Originally Posted by bae85 View Post
    How do they know the Intel Xe will be more powerful? It might also be horrendously power hungry like the Intel CPU?

    If you are playing on 1280 x 800 you won't need much, a cheap mid-range graphics chip will be more than good enough.
    We don't know until it's built. However, you'd be daft to go for the lower performing one if you're planning on using this for gaming. What is good enough now will be inadequate sooner in that case. But absolutely, one might be amazing on a test bed but awful when integrated into a small form factor like this.

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    Re: GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

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    I dunno, AMD drivers are pretty horrible. Although I do like the new "driver only" option.
    This is as always personal opinion but AMD are my preferred graphics drivers. Intels are released then zero support and always found nvidia just got worse for older cards over time once it wasn't 'current'. With AMD i've had new features arrive for my old rx480 including an auto OC which boosted it to faster than a rx580. I've always been one to hang on to stuff so AMD's long 'support + performance improvements' window has always tended me in that direction.
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    Re: GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

    Quote Originally Posted by bae85 View Post
    How do they know the Intel Xe will be more powerful? It might also be horrendously power hungry like the Intel CPU?

    If you are playing on 1280 x 800 you won't need much, a cheap mid-range graphics chip will be more than good enough.
    We already have devices with both Intel and AMD options. Also many handheld PC from recent months have the 1035/65U7 or 4600/4800U option, so we got that coverd. Intel has a lead in raw performance in gaming, but needs a lot of work on user side since the driver aren't there.

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    Re: GPD announces Win Max 2021 update with AMD APU option

    Quote Originally Posted by cheesemp View Post
    This is as always personal opinion but AMD are my preferred graphics drivers. Intels are released then zero support and always found nvidia just got worse for older cards over time once it wasn't 'current'. With AMD i've had new features arrive for my old rx480 including an auto OC which boosted it to faster than a rx580. I've always been one to hang on to stuff so AMD's long 'support + performance improvements' window has always tended me in that direction.
    Myself, I have more crashes and graphics bugs since I moved to AMD from Nvidia in a few months than in years of the Nvidia card. I know someone who works with GPGPU / CUDA stuff. He asked me if I'd ever looked at the drivers and I said "I wouldn't have the first clue what I was looking at". He replied "that's AMD's problem as well".

    Certainly they do add features further down the line, but I'd prefer stability and not crashing out of games.

    As for Intel drivers - for integrated graphics, I'd only expect a basic driver to make it go and then only essential updates when it needs a push. I wouldn't say it's fair to compare them to discrete GPUs.

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