Windows and gaming on it, is still standing because of exactly that, and its also the reason Linux for gaming has still not taken off, despite strong Valve effort. Good games and good devs are attracted to the largest target market. Most apps are produced not for Apple but for smartphones at large. Look at Sony, they're already moving that direction, porting games to other systems. Even the platforms themselves see that demand, and they also see how an abundance of services is going to limit itself at some point, people are just not going to pay more/month and almost everything is a sub in some way, so consolidation will eventually have to happen if you want your content visible. Apple wants its own locked garden and if you see any BIG trend in software land the last ten years, its been a strong desire for more open market(places) and platforms. I don't quite know how i managed to get such a top tier PC, I am not rich. Windows 11 pro 圆4 (Yes, it's genuinely a good OS) Razer Huntsman TE (custom white and steel keycaps) Logitech G Pro wireless + Steelseries Prisma XL Logitech G560 |Razer Leviathan | Corsair Void pro RGB |Blue Yeti micĬorsair HX 750i (Platinum, fan off til 300W) Galax RTX 3090 SG 24GB: Often underclocked to 1500Mhz 0.737vĢTB WD SN850 NVME + 1TB Sasmsung 970 Pro NVME + WD AN1500 1TB + 1TB Intel 6000P NVME USB 3.2 Ryzen R7 5800X (PBO tweaked, 4.4-5.05GHz)ĮK Quantum Velocity AM4 + EK Quantum ARGB 3090 w/ active backplate. That could be a whole different animal, but that'd take a lot of work. Perhaps it'd be different IF that APU was socketed and it could be dropped into future motherboards that allowed a separate dGPU, AND the 40CUs could still be used for separate compute, or rendering, or video encoding for streaming while your dGPU solely runs a game, AND/OR the 8GB of HBM2 could be used by the CPU entirely if the CUs weren't doing anything.
Who here would honestly drop $600+ on an AMD APU with 8 Zen3 cores, 40 RDNA2 CUs, and 8GB of HBM2? (In a normal GPU market?). Perhaps a powerhouse APU does have applicability somewhere, but I'm not sure if it's in the enthusiast PC space, but I could be wrong.
Here's the big problem, UPGRADABILITY! Who here is ACTUALLY willing to drop $600 on an APU knowing that you're stuck with that CPU/GPU combo forever? The main draw of the desktop PC space is UPGRADABILITY, and that's a major reason PC people don't like Apple products.
While I've always wanted a powerhouse APU from AMD, basically like the Xbox Series X in CU count but with 8GB of integrated HBM2 as VRAM and L4 Cache depending on CPU/iGPU need, and wouldn't care if it needed a socket the size of threadripper.
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