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We could be witnessing the death of the graphics card in real time
Farewell, chunky GPUs that break my motherboard
While I stand by my assessment that iGPUs are improving at a faster rate than dedicated GPUs, there’s still a wide performance gap to be closed, and it’s likely that powerful dGPUs will remain prevalent in high-end gaming and industries such as animation for a long time yet. It’s an almost heretical thing to say as a long-time PC gamer and system builder; I own more than 500 games on Steam alone, and I’ve built a ridiculous number of PCs both for work and personal use over the years. Not only are they very expensive, but being able to improve my gaming performance by simply swapping out a single chip would make future system upgrades quicker and easier, as well as allowing for more compact PC builds.
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