Minisforum have another mini PC on the market, the UM780 XTX, and this time I wanted to see how the iGPU compares to one of the most popular budget gaming gr...
It’s always neat to see occasional IGP vs. dGPU comparisons like this, if for nothing else then as a sort of barometer of IGP progress.
As always, the numbers indicate that the major Achilles’ heel of IGPs remains memory bandwidth. The 780M even seems like it could perform a tier better than implied here - in the ballpark of the legendary GTX 1060/RX 480 GPUs - if only it could fetch more data more quickly. The revelation isn’t exactly surprising, as there already exists basically a 780M in dGPU form in the RX 6400 (also 12 CUs, just paired with GDDR6 memory) that performs right in that range.
Hmm. This is the first time it’s occurred to me, but I wonder what sorts of performance we might see from iGPUs once Direct Storage is more mature. I know pulling texture data from SSD could never be as fast as from RAM - but I wonder if reducing SSD -> RAM -> GPU to just SSD -> GPU will have meaningful savings.
It’s always neat to see occasional IGP vs. dGPU comparisons like this, if for nothing else then as a sort of barometer of IGP progress.
As always, the numbers indicate that the major Achilles’ heel of IGPs remains memory bandwidth. The 780M even seems like it could perform a tier better than implied here - in the ballpark of the legendary GTX 1060/RX 480 GPUs - if only it could fetch more data more quickly. The revelation isn’t exactly surprising, as there already exists basically a 780M in dGPU form in the RX 6400 (also 12 CUs, just paired with GDDR6 memory) that performs right in that range.
Hmm. This is the first time it’s occurred to me, but I wonder what sorts of performance we might see from iGPUs once Direct Storage is more mature. I know pulling texture data from SSD could never be as fast as from RAM - but I wonder if reducing SSD -> RAM -> GPU to just SSD -> GPU will have meaningful savings.