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It's mostly also a packaging issue - I don't need 3D capabilities, so a basic 4K supporting Intel GPU works well and doesn't require me to add a GPU to a chasis (which can then be mini-ITX).

Hence my question about having GPU integrated to the motherboard like older boards had it.

You'll have to wait for the APUs, then, which probably won't arrive until fall.

This is not server. The actual server Zen, codename Naples, is coming later.

I think it'd be great if we could rely on every part having a standard, reasonable, GPU, even if we just use it as a clever vector unit and never push a single pixel through it.

No really. You'd prefer to use that silicon area to increase your perf. If you want a CPU-GPU combo wait for the laptop/mobile part of Zen codename RavenRidge.

CPUs already have vector units. Having vector units that more closely resemble a GPU as part of the base ISA would be an interesting development.

For a server I want a crummy integrated GPU to use every once in awhile without wasting a PCI-E slot.