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The rates of change and attachment

Over the years we have reported the attach rate of GPUs. Attach rate is the ratio of GPUs to CPUs or PCs. If a PC has two GPUs in it then that PC’s attach rate is 200%. Since most CPUs have a built-in GPU, an integrated GPU (iGPU), the attach rate can never get below 100%. However, not all CPUs ...

Jon Peddie

Over the years we have reported the attach rate of GPUs. Attach rate is the ratio of GPUs to CPUs or PCs. If a PC has two GPUs in it then that PC’s attach rate is 200%. Since most CPUs have a built-in GPU, an integrated GPU (iGPU), the attach rate can never get below 100%. However, not all CPUs do have an iGPU, but over 93% do. (Source: Idoms4you.com) In addition to the iGPUs, there are discrete GPUs (dGPUs) found in notebooks, and on add-in boards (AIBs) in desktop PCs. All of those components can be confusing if they
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