Yea I'm lost as well. GPUs in the gaming world are taking in more of the work load not less, so I don't get why you're saying that dedicated GPUs are disappearing?

Now I understand that the audio and video areas aren't the same thing, but surely the advances in video will benefit audio as well.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN If you call converging dropping the discrete GPU's then I agree. Look at the way macbooks and lesser expensive laptops have now evolved. They used shared graphics (as opposed to dedicated GPU's) and don't be fooled in to thinking they're integrating a GPU - they're just offloading it in to the CPU. It's a fucking copout. This is where gamers don't seem to get the idea about audio. Video hardware is built with drivers that allow proper utilization for dedicated hardware, but audio is reliant on the CPU and system as a whole (obviously apart from dedicated DSP) and therefore far more prone to overall system bottle necking. until they start acting the same way with audio, the video GPU way of doings things is sadly non relevant to us. The only advantage right now is that some processor power is freed up by having a separate GPU to handle video. Not really a huge advantage unless you can tell me something I"m missing?

I'm so confused about what your trying to say...

converging isn't just replacing the discrete graphics chip with a graphics chip integrated into the chipset or CPU (Intel core i5 style) its where a CPU and a GPU begin to do each others work, so there IS no GPU, discrete, integrated or otherwise.

I don't know what your talking about video drivers for... of course audio is reliant on the CPU, the whole idea is that it will gradually be taken up by the GPU as well. Thats what the convergence is all about.

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