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Xbox One came out in 2013, 11 years ago, with an AMD CPU.

PS4 came out in 2013, 11 years ago, with an AMD CPU.



Yes, but what's your point with those facts? Those were Bulldozer based APUs, not very good compared to what you could buy for PC back then, in an era where AMD wasn't very competitive and GPUs weren't overpriced unobtanium.


Just pointing out that AMD has been shipping cheap APUs with nice memory systems that increase iGPU performance for over 10 years.

Just mystifies me that AMD hasn't shipped similar in a laptop, SFF, or desktop yet. Especially during the GPU shortage. The AMD 780m iGPU does pretty well, clearly AMD could add more cores and ship a faster memory bus, like the ones on their Threadripper (4 channel), Siena (6 channel), threadripper pro (8 channel), or Epyc (12 channel).

Apple's doing similar with M1/m2/m3 (128 bit), M1/M2/M3 Pro (256 bit), and M1/M2/M3 Max (512 bit wide) available in laptops, tiny PCs (up to 256 bit wide) with the mini, and small desktops (studio).


They were not Bulldozer but Jaguar APUs.


Jaguar was the APU console name but it was based on Buldozer CPU architecture.


Jaguar was the codename for the CPU core microarchitecture. AMD had two separate families of microarchitectures, much like Intel's Core and Atom families (since united in one chip in Alder Lake and later).




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