- Nvidia and Intel collaborate with producing SOCs for AI servers and Consumer PCs
- It comes after Nvidia’s investment of $ 5 billion in Intel
- It can be a green light for a DLSS-driven handheld game-PC
It has been a long time to come, but it seems that Nvidia is finally planning to dive deeper into the portable gaming market that could spell good news for handheld games -PCs – and a potential trait that could literally reshape the entire stage and challenge the best handhelds.
In the event that you missed it, NVIDIA and Intel have collaborated with Team Green Investment $ 5 billion in the CPU -Making giant, with the aim of combining both CPU and GPU products for AI servers and consumer -PCs -and in particular it means that SOCs are likely to be made for gaming – -SOCs.
To put it simply, the message says ‘Intel will build X86 SOCs that integrate the NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets’ and that they will ‘drive a wide range of PCs’.
This is Fight News, as it places both Team Green and Team Blue Up Against AMD, at least within the portable mobile game room, which means the chances of seeing a DLS-powered handheld game PC are high.
It wouldn’t be the first time Nvidia has made a custom chip for a handheld. Nintendo Switch 2 is driven by Nvidia’s custom Tegra T239 chip, which allows more games to take advantage of DLSS for better performance and visual quality when it is upscaling.
If DLSS 4 drives a handheld game -PC, it would improve the performance of users significantly; Older DLS models and their performance states would often spoil visual clarity in view of the aggressive upscaling involved in the previous CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) model.
With the new transformer model, visual clarity has improved on performance conditions so that handheld users could use them without a heavy victim on visuals, while enjoying the benefits of performance they usually may not get on DLSS quality mode.
It will be interesting to see what comes from this partnership for consumers, to put it mildly, and this can potentially see Nvidia take the throne in a market that its rival, AMD, is currently dominating, with processors such as Ryzen Z2 Extreme and Ryzen AI MAX 395+.
Analysis: AMD may be in big trouble
If Intel and Nvidia manage to give consumers an RTX SOC, and it uses DLSS 4 for games -Arable computers and handheld games -PCs, AMD must be very worried.
While Ryzen AI Max 395+ is in its own league, arguably the best AMD APU, as it stands, I have no doubt that a SOC based on Intel and Nvidia CPUs and GPUs could Trump Team Red’s Portable Magnum Opus processor.
Not only is FSR 4 only officially available on RDNA 4 GPUs (despite the FSR 4 Steamos Opticals solution), but it is not better than NVIDIA’s DLS 4 offering, specifically regarding the super resolution.
We have also already seen Intel efforts in the handheld market, with the central Ultra 7 258V present in the MSI Claw 8 AI+, which I still feel as the most powerful handheld under $ 1,000 – and that is thanks to the processor’s efficiency with great performance on a 17W TDP (thermal power design/power consumption).
I just hope that if Intel and Nvidia manage to deter AMD’s best APUs, it doesn’t lead to total dominance in the handheld game -PC market because we need a consistent competition.
