If AMD's next APUs are faster than some of its discrete GPUs I'm going to be a very happy PC gamer

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A PC processor with integrated graphics capable of matching a console or discrete graphics card in performance? It's certainly already a possibility, but so far we've not seen such a chip materialise. The one company with the know-how to make it work is AMD, and it makes similar chips for the latest consoles from Sony and Microsoft. There have been some offcuts from the factory floor that sort-of fit the bill, yet such a graphically charged chip has never made its way into a gaming laptop or compact PC in earnest.

But damn, does it sound sweet. A portable device with a graphics component matching, or close to matching, the Xbox Series S would easily chomp through games at 1080p and deliver high frame rates. Music to a PC gamer's ears. Paired with a decent CPU component, perhaps a six-core or better, and a process node that can make this part sing with high efficiency, this could be the budget gaming chip that actually brings budget PC gaming into a new era.

It's an exciting proposition, no doubt about that. But how likely is it to happen? AMD has been reticent to build such a chip for the PC market, but there is now a rumour that the company's future 'Phoenix' APUs—AMD's name for its processors that combine both CPU and GPU under one roof—could be something akin to our dream processor.

Regular AMD leaker RedGamingTech (via WCCFTech) suggests that these new Phoenix APUs could come with anywhere from 16-24 RDNA Compute Units (CUs)—a CU being the powerhouse of the GPU architecture. That would put these rumoured next-gen processors closely above or below the Xbox Series S with its 20 RDNA 2 CUs. The exact architecture of these CUs is yet to be determined—even the chip itself isn't completely confirmed—but it could be RDNA 2,