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What AMD and Intel's partnership means for PC gaming

AMD and Intel just announced early today a major partnership to join forces, combining Intel's CPU technology with AMD's graphics. The move is no doubt a shock for the gaming industry and has far reaching ramifications. Here's what we think are the most important bits, and how the partnership will affect PC gaming.

ocelot072381d ago

PS5: Intel processing power and AMD's GPU power - yes please

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Tsar4ever012380d ago (Edited 2380d ago )

"PS5: Intel processing power and AMD's GPU power".

INTEL CPU cores? HAH!! While your going that far off the deep end, why don't you just request for Nvidia's GPU power for PS5 too? Guess you haven't read that old Forbes article about why Sony & Microsoft choose AMD & X86-64 for PS4 & XB1. https://www.forbes.com/site...

bluefox7552379d ago

Agreed. People might say that Nvidia is better, but AMD does great and is very comparable in the low-mid range GPU market. Intel CPUs would be a godsend though, hopefully addressing some of the CPU limitations this gen.

Tsar4ever012379d ago

Yeah, Intel cpus would've made a big difference in frame-rates performance on current-gen consoles, Can you even imagine how well even the BASE consoles would've done running Ryzen apu's? Richard at Digital Foundry gave us sort off a Hypothesis video on this, you might of already looked at it, https://www.youtube.com/wat... and the result showed gives me hope for next-gen consoles.

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Bigpappy2381d ago

No more CPU competition? Not sure this is all that great. But life is about changes.

ocelot072381d ago

Both are still going to be competing in the CPU I imagine. This only help's both parties. Intel's graphics where ok but does not have a patch on AMD's so this will help them. This will help AMD also and will make netbook's a decent buy for portable gaming.

darthv722381d ago

It's not about the cpu side at all. Intel is wanting to use AMD gpu technology combined with their cpu to create an APU that takes on nvidia.

Bigpappy2380d ago

okay. thanks for the clarification guys.

zivtheawesome2379d ago

well it is not really no cpu competition this is only one build they are doing together, they still have seperate builds using only AMD/ intel + nvidia.

UltraNova2379d ago

Its only for small factor applications not desktop, laptop and enterprise CPUs.

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Rimeskeem2381d ago

As long as the prices don’t sky rocket I’m ok with it.

MegamanXXX2380d ago

Can you imagine the prices it would be if it was Nvidia and intel

xX-oldboy-Xx2379d ago

My hope is the prices come down. One can hope.

FyBy2379d ago

That would be great "APU" for consoles! Cant wait! But in the end AMD-only solution can deliver similar for better price, so I dont think we will see these CPUs in consoles in the future.

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Sony States We Will Know More About the "Long-Term Vision" of PlayStation Later This Month

Sony has confirmed that there is something happening later this month and it involves SIE which is the division that operates PlayStation.

Skuletor12h ago

My guess, is they were waiting for the new CEO position to be finalized before their next showcase and now that's out of the way.

neutralgamer199211h ago

Yes I think you are right. They wanted the leadership in place hopefully now they can give a strong showing of what’s to come

S2Killinit10h ago

Its not confirmed that this will involve game announcements.

Cacabunga10h ago

Tbh this claim doesn’t reassure me at all..

Eonjay6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

@S2Killinit

If this is about games that worries me because I thought they were walking away from announcing titles far in advance. For them to say 'Long Term Vision' sounds like we are getting announcements years in advance. I don't want that. Lets hope the long term vision part refers to their goal for the company and that they also give us info on projects reaching fruition in the short term.

Also, this is gonna be where we find out that they are going full PC day and date (or greatly reduced if they don't have the capacity at their studios). Its gonna happen. Why? Because all you have to do is look at Helldivers... fastest selling PlayStation game ever. And they make good games. They will sell.
Now we can fight over whether this will hurt the console space. I don't think so as long as they provide an option that will allow people to come close to maxing out their graphics... ergo the PRO.

46player11h ago

Sounds good, PS5 Pro preorders. Let’s do this!

Crows9011h ago

I don't get it....we barely got any ps5 exclusives and people already want a refresh??

crazyCoconuts10h ago

When they show GTA6 on the Pro I think you'll get it

VersusDMC9h ago

Pretty sure we got 5 console exclusives this year so far and 3rd party games took advantage of the PS4pro last gen so it will happen with the PS5pro as well.

romulus239h ago

I don't get it either but people get new iphones the second they come out even though they just bought the previous one which works just fine. Some people just want the latest and greatest no matter what and have the income to do it. If the improvement to games is significant enough I may get one but probably not at launch.

-Foxtrot9h ago

Exactly

I will always be behind the idea that one of the reasons why this gen doesn't feel as much of a leap is because we kind of got spoilt with the PS4 Pro last gen. It was like a teaser to this gen.

Looking back on a technological leap after 7 years is way more impressive than if it was 3 or so.

Crows903h ago

@versus

You're making this out to be something it isn't. I think it's stupid that sony themselves have barely put out any exclusives that can only run on the ps5 and we already have calls for a "pro" version...that is mindblowingly dumb in my opinion

Einhander19722h ago(Edited 2h ago)

People come up with the silliest reasons to claim the console isn't needed, exclusives made by Sony don't matter, third party games are like 500 to 1 even in the best year.

And since PS1 PlayStation has relied on third party publishing deals, the vast vast majority of games that people see as PlayStation games were made by third party developers published by Sony, Insomniac only recently became a PlayStation studio all their games made before that were as a third party.

PS5 Pro is the same as a graphics card upgrade that no one ever complains about like this, and it's way cheaper performance per dollar than a CPU.

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anast11h ago

Big things right around the corner.

purple10111h ago

Almost optimistic to say, but those leaks of the 6 cancelled games (games that were not even announced)

yeh, maybe some didn't actually get cancelled after all

notachance11h ago

as a long time ps fans I hope they still put great single player games front and center, make your live service games if you have to but don’t force your 1st party studios to make something they don’t want to.. redfall is an unfortunate example of a good studio forced to basically destroy themselves.

Eonjay6h ago

Good points. How would you feel if Sony decided to put their single player games on PC day and date? This would allow their studios making single player games to recoup more money to keep the games coming. If it works with GaaS why not single player?

notachance2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

If they do that, it’s just a matter of time before someone make a console using PC as a platform, then that console would automatically have the full PC games (which means combined PS, PC, and Xbox games) as a library.

In fact, who’s to say steam aren’t working at it right now lol, just imagine it, something with the ease of use of console that can play both ps and xbox games day 1.. combined with the marketbase of steam, there’s the new king of console.

Or better yet, Nintendo would do it and there will finally be one console that can play it all..

Ps: on the topic of games releasing day and date, you could argue that by delaying PC release date there will be a few people who double dipped on buying games, just like what good ol rockstar loved doing with their games..

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