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Thus my comment on mixed architectures. To be fair on AMD its only the 5600U/5700U where there is a small amount of confusion. At least they are no longer mixing entire product lines as they did before with APUs being previous gen to the CPUs.

To this day, I STILL don't know the difference between Vega 6, Vega 8, or any other iGPU AMD has used in the last decade...
 
To this day, I STILL don't know the difference between Vega 6, Vega 8, or any other iGPU AMD has used in the last decade...
The number after the Vega is the number of Compute Units. They seem to trail their iGPUs at least one gen behind their dGPUs. Don't know why but that is the way they do it.
 
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At least AMD was able to release 7nm parts. Intel can't even get their desktop lineup on 10nm...

Oh, I am not dissing AMD. Their progress with Zen is quite amazing and the decision to go fabless and rely on dedicated companies for chip manufacturing has definitely paid off. I'm just saying that they have been an underdog for a while and using more cores with inferior single-threaded performance is what they had to do to stay competitive. They can still do that today because of a superior manufacturing process and better yields.
 
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