when you think gaming pc there's obviously one thing that differentiates
it from a regular computer plenty of RGB lighting
wait when you think of gaming pc there's obviously one thing that differentiates
it from a regular computer a powerful graphics card even dropping a solid GPU
into a boring office box will turn it into a capable gaming machine but have
you ever wondered why this was a requirement i mean plenty of computers have cpus
with integrated graphics sometimes called igpus but they have a reputation
for being low performance and not good for much other than playing less
graphically intensive titles at lower resolutions so why haven't we figured
out a way to strap powerful graphics processing into our cpus well one
concern is space if you have a look at how much room the GPU takes up on a
graphics card it's not very much compared to the rest of the pcb but
notice that it's about the same size or maybe even larger than your system's CPU
and all it does is process graphics simply put there just isn't enough die
space available on a CPU package left over for graphics processing for an
integrated GPU to be as powerful as a discrete card but why can't we just make
GPU smaller well the processing units that make up the chips are very tightly
packed and as transistor sizes have gotten smaller and smaller the likes of
a b and NVIDIA have continued to cram more and more of them onto their gpus to
make them more powerful and they still tend to be larger than cpus so it isn't
just that practical to combine both into
one part not to mention that if you did try to devote a lot more space in the
CPU package to graphics you generate a lot more heat think about how large the
coolers are on high-end graphics cards then think about one cooler trying to
draw heat away from a chip package that has both high-end GPU and a high-end CPU
working hard during a gaming session that's a lot of heat
unsurprisingly money has something to do with this too you see since gpus tend to
be physically larger than cpus they take up more space on the large round wafers
they're printed on at the factory and space on that wafer isn't cheap meaning
that Intel and AMD can make more money turning out smaller more in-demand cpus
instead further limiting how much space on a CPU can be reserved for graphics
but wait there's more there are also memory limitations with integrated
graphics if you ever buy a discrete graphics card you'll notice that it uses
a different type of memory than your system such as GDDR or hbm which are
special kinds of RAM engineered to work more quickly with a GPU which has a
fundamentally different architecture than a CPU but integrated graphics have
to instead share your system's main memory which is not only slower but
there may be less of it available than what would be on a discreet card which
can limit both resolution and texture quality in more intensive games however
that doesn't mean integrated graphics are useless and that all gamers should
go and pick up expensive dedicated cards as time has worn on smaller transistor
sizes and greater power efficiency mean that both Intel and AMD have been able
to make eye gpus that can play lots of popular titles at 720 or even 1080p as
long as you don't go too crazy with the graphical eye candy
especially more esport and competition-oriented titles like cs go
that aren't quite as demanding so if you're primarily into games that don't
have a reputation for punishing hardware or you're just rocking a lower res
monitor give the graphics card that came with your CPU a shot before plunking
down lots of money on a discrete card after all plenty of things can
accomplish two tasks well just look at our good friend the spork
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