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OP added "ATI" by themselves rather than keeping original one. What a shame.

Anyway:

> t provides an additional six displays up to 4K with the Intel HD graphics that has three, giving a total of nine outputs. The Radeon Graphics supports DisplayPort 1.4 with HDR and HDMI 2.0b with HDR10 support, along with FreeSync/FreeSync2. As a result, when the graphics output changes from Intel HD Graphics to Radeon graphics, users will have access to FreeSync, as well as enough displays to shake a stick at (if the device has all the outputs).

Yes, if those NOCs/HTPCs provide all of those capabilities, otherwise it's just marketing words. In reality, only top notch has more than 1 DisplayPort, I guess.

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The already-announced Hades Canyon NUC has 2x DisplayPort, 2x HDMI 2.0a and 2x Thunderbolt 3. That amounts to six ports capable of driving a 4K display. Thunderbolt 3 ports can drive two 4K displays at 60Hz if the controller supports it.

I suspect that other products using this processor will be less generous in terms of connectivity, simply because it's total overkill for the overwhelming majority of users.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12226/intels-hades-canyon-nuc...

I dont know, but I heard about DP being able to daisy-chain. Meaning multiple displays on one output, including less cable stress.

Yes, that's called Multi-Stream Transport (MST). In general, I'd rather have multiple ports on my output source rather than daisy-chaining which requires not only the output to support MST but also the displays; most displays do not have an output port for MST.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multiple_displays_...

This way does emphasize the incongruity of Intel and AMD in one product. I like it.

However, I read the article hoping to figure out why Intel is doing this, and no luck there. Are they giving up on the Intel graphics?

Reading the title I'm curious why Intel went with a graphics core that's been dead for a decade.

The intel CPU still has an iGPU.

No they don't, they'll fuse AMD's VEGA core with their CPU (including their IGP) to make this. AMD GPU will be used for heavy task like gaming, rendering while Intel IGP will be used for less power consumption tasks like displaying or h264/h265 encode/decode.

"fuse" is a little strong. There's a VEGA GPU in a multi-chip module, connected with a 8x PCIe lane. It's not like Intel licensed the GPU for integration into their own silicon.

We've already seen laptops with Intel/AMD hybrid graphics, this just moves it from the motherboard to the other side of the socket without actually giving you the high-speed interconnect that an GPU-on-CPU gets.

From the article:

Each of the new parts is a quad-core design using HyperThreading, with Intel’s HD 630 GT2 graphics as the traditional ‘integrated’ low power graphics (iGPU) for video playback and QuickSync. This is connected via eight PCIe 3.0 lanes to the ‘package’ graphics (pGPU) chip, the Radeon RX Vega M, leaving 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU to use for other functionality (GPU, FPGA, RAID controller, Thunderbolt 3, 10 Gigabit Ethernet).

So Intel isn't throwing in the towel on the iGPU, they're just augmenting it with a discrete GPU in an all-in-one package for system builders.

Sorry, force of habit I guess - mods feel free to correct if you notice this as I can’t edit the title after posting.

Editorializing in the title like that is pretty tacky, especially as there are mobile Xeons with ECC already.

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