What'd be the benefit? As it is you get to use the iGPU for low power scenarios, then switch to the dGPU for heavy lifting. When the dGPU is enabled the iGPU is barely doing anything (passing information from the dGPU to your display outputs), so at most you'll be losing out on a couple of watts from it being there. I don't think that's enough to make a difference to clock speeds when you're already ad a 45W TDP.
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Thunder 57 - Monday, January 6, 2020 - link
Agreed. Integrated Vega with LPDDR4X should provide plenty of performance.Myxt - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Keeping iGPUs in laptops are important imo. You don't want the dGPU to constantly suck up juice while browsing. Having an iGPU saves so much power.Spunjji - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
What'd be the benefit? As it is you get to use the iGPU for low power scenarios, then switch to the dGPU for heavy lifting. When the dGPU is enabled the iGPU is barely doing anything (passing information from the dGPU to your display outputs), so at most you'll be losing out on a couple of watts from it being there. I don't think that's enough to make a difference to clock speeds when you're already ad a 45W TDP.Jugotta Bichokink - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Why? Just turn it off if you don't want to use it. It costs nothing to have it there.msroadkill612 - Tuesday, January 7, 2020 - link
Good point. Maybe cooling the apu w/ both a pumped cpu in addition to having the IGP in use is too difficult?taz-nz - Monday, January 6, 2020 - link
The one place Intel could feel save was in Laptops, not anymore.Hyper72 - Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - link
Indeed, I had to buy a laptop two months ago because I couldn't wait, got a i7-9750H. It's safe to say; I would've gone AMD if I could have waited.vFunct - Monday, January 6, 2020 - link
Do these have AVX-512 like Icelake does?nandnandnand - Monday, January 6, 2020 - link
Do you have any software that uses AVX-512?koopahermit - Monday, January 6, 2020 - link
Desktop Zen2 doesn't have AVX-512, so the mobile variant isn't going to have it either.And it won't matter at all since Intel's best Icelake CPUs only go to 4c/8t