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when you think gaming pc there's obviously one thing that differentiates

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it from a regular computer plenty of RGB lighting

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wait when you think of gaming pc there's obviously one thing that differentiates

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it from a regular computer a powerful graphics card even dropping a solid GPU

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into a boring office box will turn it into a capable gaming machine but have

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you ever wondered why this was a requirement i mean plenty of computers have cpus

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with integrated graphics sometimes called igpus but they have a reputation

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for being low performance and not good for much other than playing less

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graphically intensive titles at lower resolutions so why haven't we figured

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out a way to strap powerful graphics processing into our cpus well one

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concern is space if you have a look at how much room the GPU takes up on a

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graphics card it's not very much compared to the rest of the pcb but

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notice that it's about the same size or maybe even larger than your system's CPU

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and all it does is process graphics simply put there just isn't enough die

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space available on a CPU package left over for graphics processing for an

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integrated GPU to be as powerful as a discrete card but why can't we just make

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GPU smaller well the processing units that make up the chips are very tightly

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packed and as transistor sizes have gotten smaller and smaller the likes of

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a b and NVIDIA have continued to cram more and more of them onto their gpus to

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make them more powerful and they still tend to be larger than cpus so it isn't

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just that practical to combine both into

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one part not to mention that if you did try to devote a lot more space in the

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CPU package to graphics you generate a lot more heat think about how large the

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coolers are on high-end graphics cards then think about one cooler trying to

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draw heat away from a chip package that has both high-end GPU and a high-end CPU

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working hard during a gaming session that's a lot of heat

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unsurprisingly money has something to do with this too you see since gpus tend to

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be physically larger than cpus they take up more space on the large round wafers

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they're printed on at the factory and space on that wafer isn't cheap meaning

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that Intel and AMD can make more money turning out smaller more in-demand cpus

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instead further limiting how much space on a CPU can be reserved for graphics

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but wait there's more there are also memory limitations with integrated

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graphics if you ever buy a discrete graphics card you'll notice that it uses

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a different type of memory than your system such as GDDR or hbm which are

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special kinds of RAM engineered to work more quickly with a GPU which has a

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fundamentally different architecture than a CPU but integrated graphics have

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to instead share your system's main memory which is not only slower but

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there may be less of it available than what would be on a discreet card which

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can limit both resolution and texture quality in more intensive games however

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that doesn't mean integrated graphics are useless and that all gamers should

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go and pick up expensive dedicated cards as time has worn on smaller transistor

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sizes and greater power efficiency mean that both Intel and AMD have been able

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to make eye gpus that can play lots of popular titles at 720 or even 1080p as

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long as you don't go too crazy with the graphical eye candy

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especially more esport and competition-oriented titles like cs go

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that aren't quite as demanding so if you're primarily into games that don't

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have a reputation for punishing hardware or you're just rocking a lower res

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monitor give the graphics card that came with your CPU a shot before plunking

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down lots of money on a discrete card after all plenty of things can

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