Discussion AMD SoC Halo series GPU discussion

[Thunder 57]

This “company” will not have volume. That’s the problem here

I think you missed the joke.

 

[yottabit]

not to mention one that runs 2x to 3x longer on battery and is half the thickness in most cases.



again, your not lugging around the egpu around everywhere, unless its to a hotel room.

eGPU setups are not messy, unless you have absolute dog pile bedding mess of wire management, and don't use a proper SFF modular power supply.

No, they will not get eclipsed. A Ultra Portable, is typically HALF the thickness of a Laptop dGPU because it does not require the larger heat sink. The Battery is also smaller, yet they run longer, because again, there is no extra stuff to power.

My brothers LG Gram for example weights less then 1KG.
Is so thin that they couldn't make it thinner because of the USB ports.
It also runs almost forever on battery unless your doing heavy lifting, but most importantly, if you have a Power Delivery 3 USB Battery pack, you can carry that around and literally have it run all day.
Something you can never do to a Gaming Laptop.

Again.. gaming laptops are the biggest pieces of cow manure you can possibly buy.
They don't excel at anything, while trying to do everything.

At least these handhelds got that right, they don't do everything, they just play games, but from what im seeing its all mostly in medium settings, with only a few being high settings on the non UE5/Unity/Advance Gaming engine games.

Again i can steam roll though most games on ultra settings with my eGPU 3090 unless i plug myself into a external 4k monitor.

Dude, some people like laptops because they can carry them around and use them on the go. Crazy, I know. Some of the same people (like me, who already has a desktop with a 3090) occasionally require doing GPU heavy tasks on the go.

For us, we like a laptop with a dGPU (yes, one inside the laptop) or a powerful APU

 

[LightningZ71]

I've always been more partial to the "creator" type laptops. They've tended to not be as flashy as gaming laptops, and they typically don't push the power and thermals through the roof, but they can usually do almost anything reasonably well with plenty of ports to connect things. They certainly aren't thin and light though.

 

[DavidC1]

looks awesome. can't wait for medusa halo

I'm pretty sure they can come with a form factor that's a bit bigger to accommodate a slim dGPU and make it fully upgradable with 35W rated desktop chips. And add a latch on top to attach a small screen so @aigomorla can have his cake and eat it too. Bring back MXM? Also a DC output as well.

The biggest issue for gaming laptops for me is for all the cost, you throw it away in a few years because nothing important is upgradeable. Desktops allow you to upgrade only the things you want.

 

[igor_kavinski]

you throw it away in a few years

They just find a new home. No one throws away a really expensive laptop. I once almost bought a used expensive ASUS 4K laptop with dual Geforce 900 GPUs, 64GB RAM and Skylake CPU. Original price was $5000 but the seller was selling it for a little over $1000. Good thing that I didn't because few years later, someone was kind enough to sell me their HP Omen i7-10750H 1080p 300Hz display laptop with Geforce 3070 for ~$780.