Guyz this is impossible. You are asking from a 95watt (or 125watt) APU which has to power his CPU and his GPU, to compete a lets say (I will not go to Titan levels) an 150watt GPU only (a simple entry gaming level GPU with only one PCI-E 6pin).
That's bloody impossible. Now combine this with Maxwell effieciency. Game over....
Also in 4-5 years 4K will be mainstream. Good luck to any APU in 4-5 years to try to give good FPS at high settings in 4K. Things will go back where they started.
AMD has plans to improve their APU from time to time but by no means replacing even an R7 260/260X/265 of their time.
AMD has the APUs in order to target entry level users who don't have much space (ITX). Nothing more...
APUs are not worth anything in gaming today if you have a little more space to add a discrete GPU.
Instead of an APU which will cost $150-160, take an Athlon 750K/760K and combine it with a R7 250X GPU. With the same money they will destroy any APU in any game...
So TLDR: AMD cannot build an APU in order to compete with discrete GPUs, neither they want to build one...
It's impossible with our current technology. We're moving to replace silicon with graphene which is a much more capeable material to build chips out of. That's just one of the changes I know is coming in the next 20 years of computing. Who knows what else.
Already phones are outpowering PCs that are only 7-8 years old. It's pretty astounding what we can do with our current technical limitations.
I'm never going to underestimate what the human race is capeable of. Each year we understand our universe just a bit more and thus can create more amazing technology that would appear to be magic just 50 years ago.
But it's just a matter of logic. Until quantum computing becomes a thing, the compromise inherent to having both a CPU and graphics acceleration on the same chip will bring its downsides to having a discrete card.
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