So what was AMD thinking with its release of the 8700G and 8600G APUs, and is it planning to phase them out?
They come with the 780M and 680M processors, respectively, and both are outperformed by the 980M at a lower power draw [0]. Theoretically a consumer can't put these parts directly in a pc there's already a mini-pc with the laptop part 980M [1]. The 7800G sometimes shows up in mid-range and high-end gaming PCs with discrete graphics cards [2], which makes so little sense that I wonder if AMD quietly offloaded them in bulk at a steep discount to vendors.
I've commented on this before [3], can anyone shed light on the situation?
They come with the 780M and 680M processors, respectively, and both are outperformed by the 980M at a lower power draw [0]. Theoretically a consumer can't put these parts directly in a pc there's already a mini-pc with the laptop part 980M [1]. The 7800G sometimes shows up in mid-range and high-end gaming PCs with discrete graphics cards [2], which makes so little sense that I wonder if AMD quietly offloaded them in bulk at a steep discount to vendors.
I've commented on this before [3], can anyone shed light on the situation?
[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/21485/the-amd-ryzen-ai-hx-370...
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/soyos-upcomin...
[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/hp-omen-35l...
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41140287