amd 7850k and mobo integrated graphics

gokudsv

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Feb 23, 2014
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I'd really like to know what is the point of having an integrated 7000 hd graphics chip on the FM2 motherboards if all the apus that go in them also have a graphics chip in them? Which gets used, the mobo's chip or apu's or both? i understand Intel when they moved the integrated graphics chip from the southbridge into the processor , but why does amd have two of them if only one is used?
 
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The FM2/FM2+ MBs do NOT have an integrated gfx processor on them. Just like Intel, the APUs have an on-die GPU that supplies the video.