- NVIDIA and Intel combine to make SOCs for AI servers and consumer PCs
- It comes after the investment of $ 5 billion in Nvidia in Intel
- This could be a green light for a portable game PC powered by DLSS
It has been a long time, but it seems that Nvidia finally plans to dive deeper into the portable game market, which could spell great news for portable games – and a potential decision that could literally reshape the whole scene, questioning the best workforce.
In case you have missed it, Nvidia and Intel have joined forces, with Team Green investing $ 5 billion in the CPU manufacturing giant, with the intention of combining CPU and GPU products for AI servers and general public PCs – and in particular, this means that SOCs will probably be manufactured for laptops for playing for gaming computers.
To put it simply, the announcement stipulates that “Intel will create SOC X86 which incorporate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets” and those which will “feed a wide range of PCs”.
It is huge The news as he places both Team Green and Team Blue against AMD, at least in the portable mobile play space, which means that the chances of seeing a portable play PC propelled by DLSS are high.
It would not be the first time that Nvidia would have made a personalized chip for a pocket computer. The Nintendo Switch 2 is powered by the Nvidia personalized T239 chip, which allows several games to take advantage of DLSS for better performance and better visual quality when scaling.
If DLSS 4 fueled a portable game PC, this would considerably improve user performance; The older DLSS models and their performance modes would often spoil visual clarity, taking into account the aggressive scale involved in the previous CNN (Neuronal Network) model.
With the new transformer model, visual clarity has improved on performance modes, so that portable users can use them without heavy sacrifice on visuals, while taking advantage of the benefits of performance that they may normally not obtain in DLSS quality mode.
It will be interesting to see what comes from this partnership for consumers, to say the least, and this could potentially see Nvidia take the throne in a market that its rival, AMD, currently dominates, with processors like the Ryzen Z2 Extreme and the Ryzen Ai Max 395+.
Analysis: AMD could be in great difficulty
If Intel and Nvidia manage to provide consumers with a RTX SOC, and use DLSS 4 for laptops for playing and portable games, AMD should be very worried.
While the Ryzen Ai Max 395+ is in a separate league, without a doubt the best AMD APU as it is able, I have no doubt that an SOC based on the Intel and Nvidia processors and the GPU can prevail over the portable Magnum opus processor of Team Red.
Not only is FSR 4 officially available on DNA 4 GPUs (despite the Optiscaler FSR 4 Steamos bypass), but it is not better than the NVIDIA DLSS 4 offer, in particular with regard to the super resolution.
We have also already seen intel efforts on the portable market, with the main Ultra 7 258V present in the MSI Claw 8 AI +, which I always amaze as the most powerful pocket computer of less than $ 1,000 – and it is thanks to the efficiency of the processor with great performance at a 17W TDP (thermal power / energy consumption design).
I just hope that if Intel and Nvidia manage to dethrone the best APU APA, this does not lead to total domination on the portable game PC market, because we need coherent competition.
