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While Intel’s Radeon RX Vega (“Kaby Lake-G”) chip was designed to offer 1080p performance inside of something that approaches an ultrabook, the new 8th-gen Core i9 chips are designed for what Hamberger called “musclebooks,” offering the absolute best performance that you can get on a laptop.
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I checked out the first link...
They specifically mention the (AMD) Vega GPU of the previous chip,
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...Intel’s Radeon RX Vega (“Kaby Lake-G”) ...
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, but I didn't see anywhere that they say what the "new" chips use for video.
Then they switch to discussing -in length- how much faster the CPU is, which has little to do with video performance.
Unless the GPU is simply so far beyond the graphical load, that the only "bottle-neck" is how fast the CPU can feed it new data.
Which to those that understand how all of this stuff works, would seem to indicate that the "Kaby Lake G" CPU is the limitation that the _i9_ now fixes.
I see 4 possibilities for this:
1: The i9 uses a new GPU isn't as good as the Vega GPU.
2: The i9 uses the Vega GPU.
3: The i9 uses a better GPU.
4: The i9 uses a "discrete" (i.e. separate) video card, making the GPU choice of the Kaby Lake G irrelevant.
They could have just said something along the lines of "While the Kaby Lake-G chip was designed to offer 1080p performance...".... "The new i9...."
I really don't care what they do, put the info in, or leave it out...
Just do it for __BOTH__ CPUs.
Barracuda
P.S. I've been reading about these chips (Intel CPU/Vega GPU) since before they launched, as I read a few sites that are focused on the Linux kernel, and as a result of the drivers needing to "be there" before the hardware launches, I can tend to stay "with the curve" on new stuff.