Originally posted by johanb
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Well since speculation is most of what we do here, I designed this table specifically for speculation
While AMD has been wasting time with their consoles, nvidia has been making huge profits with overpriced trend of gaming laptops. I think it's the fastest growing hardware market in gaming. Gaming laptops are horribly unbalanced though. We'd been using the same 45W quad cores so far in combination with both 150W and 60W GPUs. Most reasonably priced GPUs (especially in trendy thin and light laptops) don't need this kind of performance (and power drain).
My guess is these APUs will be performance equivalents 1050Ti+7700HQ and 1060+7700HQ, but with lower TDPs (60W as opposed to 100W and 100W as opposed to 125W).
These will be gaming oriented machines, with 60W APU dedicating about 15W to the CPU and 45W to the GPU and 20-25W to the CPU and 75-80W to the GPU on the 100W APU.
Manufacturers will be allowed to change the clock speeds/TDP on these APUs to suit their cooling solutions. At best we can hope for laptop 1060-tier performance.
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