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There shouldn't be too much argument here on what processors go to what board.
We read that APU and Performance desktop chips will be on the same platform.
We also know that Opteron chips have been on the desktop market as well. My wife runs Opteron 1389 which happens to be AM3+ compatible but does not feature an APU. However it does have Opteron features such has EEC memory compatibility and different thermal trip and TDP ratings along with P-states and so forth.
So we "could" see an Opteron with 8 cores and iGPU on AM4 platform. Could just be an APU that met criteria to be that of an opteron, they just code this cpu differently. Cpu-z will read opteron vs APU and again, "could" feature iGPU. But there's no hard evidence of this yet.
As far as data centers go, blade servers don't have a need for iGPU. What good would it be to integrate this on a 4P server board? It wouldn't.
So we can safely say there "may" be Opterons with iGPU, but most likely will only be a 1P board and must be compatible in the CPU list for the bios of that board. So then you might see special boards strictly for 1P servers that have an use iGPU.
Certainly must define the term "server" and iGPU. I have a server at home. and has 2 sockets. The onbaord gpu is fine. It doesn't game. It simply shows file paths. iGPU of any kind from any modern server chip is way over kill. And it just doesn't make sense to have a 4P board with 4 iGPUs on it. it would be a waste of gpus and moneys to create such things.
We read that APU and Performance desktop chips will be on the same platform.
We also know that Opteron chips have been on the desktop market as well. My wife runs Opteron 1389 which happens to be AM3+ compatible but does not feature an APU. However it does have Opteron features such has EEC memory compatibility and different thermal trip and TDP ratings along with P-states and so forth.
So we "could" see an Opteron with 8 cores and iGPU on AM4 platform. Could just be an APU that met criteria to be that of an opteron, they just code this cpu differently. Cpu-z will read opteron vs APU and again, "could" feature iGPU. But there's no hard evidence of this yet.
As far as data centers go, blade servers don't have a need for iGPU. What good would it be to integrate this on a 4P server board? It wouldn't.
So we can safely say there "may" be Opterons with iGPU, but most likely will only be a 1P board and must be compatible in the CPU list for the bios of that board. So then you might see special boards strictly for 1P servers that have an use iGPU.
Certainly must define the term "server" and iGPU. I have a server at home. and has 2 sockets. The onbaord gpu is fine. It doesn't game. It simply shows file paths. iGPU of any kind from any modern server chip is way over kill. And it just doesn't make sense to have a 4P board with 4 iGPUs on it. it would be a waste of gpus and moneys to create such things.