Originally posted by skeevy420
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Are you aware of the complexity required by multi-CPU boards and CPUs supporting this? APUs are CONSUMER hardware, they are first and foremost supposed to be cheap enough for consumer market.
You are basically asking to add caviar in your sandwich.
so a workstation user wouldn't need multiple GPUs to fire up a VM for pass through.
Where you get pcie passthrough is in servers doing stuff, not in workstations.
office environments where two or more people could share the same system in a multi-seat setup since all we'd need is a monitor and USB hub for each APU.
I often wonder if pressure from game console manufacturers is why we don't have good APUs yet. I really doubt that MS or Sony wants an APU on the market that beats the PS4 or XB1 @1080p for less than the cost of the consoles.
And probably the newer APUs will be more or less the same as PS4 Pro and XboneX.
They won't go farther than that because of what I said above. APUs are supposed to target the lower ends of the market. Consumers that can't afford (either money or size/thermal budget) a decent discrete graphics, yet aren't covered by the entry-lever integrated graphics.
If you're gonna do something with HBM this year, please do it with APUs and not GPUs.
Also, your model numbers really suck right now. It's hard to tell if someone is talking about the RX 5700 or if they typo-ed RX 570 or if they're talking about motherboards. How frickin' hard would it have been to call it an RX 670? It's like y'all hired Slackware's marketing team for this launch. Please, please don't tell me this is a pecker wiggling contest with Nvidia over who has the highest model number since only morons think stupid thoughts like "5700 is a bigger number than 2080 therefore it must be better...oh snap, there's the HD7970, it's HD with a bigger number so it has to be better ".
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