Apple To Ditch AMDs Radeon GPUs

[LoadsaMoney]

Shortly after announcing the development of their own processors and pretty much abandoning Intel, AMD is next, as their GPUs are phased out. And that means that Apple wants total autonomy of their CPU and GPU products.

By way of a twitter post, a thing or two have become clear. Apple is preparing to drop AMD as a supplier of discrete GPUs in the near future. That means they are stepping into an ARM architecture that is self-developed tied to their own GPUs. The new GPU series is tagged as the "Metal GPU Family," that derives from their Metal graphics API. This news originates from a WWDC 2020 presentation slide posted by Longhorn on Twitter. The slide implies that along with the processor, Apple is causing a separation with its graphics hardware. What product will be involved is a bit of a question marker, but we assume most of them. Thanks, SOTN for the news submit.

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[nomadd]

https://www.guru3d.com/news_story/apply_to_devleoiop_meta_seriss_gpuditches_radeon.html

Makes complete sense. They already do this for their existing ARM-based products, so why not their new desktops too.

 

[Morfinel]

Now we know why new mac have such a terrible cpu cooler, on new "apple cpu" all they have to do is change cooling i.e put the copper pipe back in and magically anything will look better then current thermal throttling intel.
Same scenario for Amd...

 

[HACO]

Unlike the x86 scene which has stagnated when it comes to IPC (compared to ARM), the GPU scene has constantly improved.

Apple will need to significantly step up their GPU game to be able to match Nvidia/AMD.

 

[Freddie1980]

Unlike the x86 scene which has stagnated when it comes to IPC (compared to ARM), the GPU scene has constantly improved.

Apple will need to significantly step up their GPU game to be able to match Nvidia/AMD.

Apple will probably taylor the hardware for specific use case scenarios in the case of Macs so it most likely be a champ for running programmes like Photoshop and Illustrator.

 

[Journey]

I fully predict Macs to become as popular as they were in the mid 90's once this is in full effect with the new ARM CPU's.