Looks promising, although everything from AMD usually looks promising. Just wondering what you think about an AMD gpu push into laptops. There are virtually 0 AMD discrete gpu's in laptops today and think that with a new more power efficient architecture, they can at least appear in some laptops.
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They could already probably find a way to fit the nano into a laptop
but as far as dedicated graphics go, they just need APUs with high speed DDR4 memory in laptops, or better yet APUs with HBM on die
If the new GCN architecture actually hits these power and thermal targets it will be a very interesting option. I think many laptop manufacturers may start offering these. It would give them another option and make prices more fluid and even drive them down. Right now they have to go with nVidia but having an AMD option would work out
I'd bet my dog that Apple is going to be all over Polaris in laptops. Apple is already one of the only companies to use AMD mobile Gpu's in their laptops, and I bet Polaris will have a home there as well.
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They probably only use AMD's GPUs because it maximizes their profits
If I remember right, Nvidia just wasn't cooperative with Apple so they decided to go with AMD instead.
Had Intel not been working on the low-power Core i-Series processors in 2009, I'm fairly sure that Apple would have gone with AMD chips for many of their laptops, because Intel didn't cooperate with what Steve Jobs wanted.
Well yeah probably. Only the highest end MacBook Pro and the highest end iMac uses dedicated AMD GPUs. nVidia probably wasn't interested in such a small contract.
Well not really. I mean its not like Nvidia would have to reinvent the wheel to get the 860m/960m to work in a MacBook pro, or a 980m into an iMac. Frankly, Apple definitely sells more Mac Pro's then Asus sells G751's...
The Firepro cards are pretty solid performance per dollar overall anyways, probably why they went with them for the Mac Pro