“Right on the heels of Apple discontinuing its Thunderbolt display, the rumor mill is picking up: Apple’s next monitor might integrate its own GPU,” Napier Lopez reports for TNW. “John Paczkowski, Managing Editor at BuzzFeed, made the claim based of off unnamed sources: ‘Thunderbolt Display takes dirt nap as expected. Sources telling me next-gen display will indeed have integrated GPU.'”
“There are two reasons why having an integrated GPU could be amazing. First off, the panel is rumored to be 5K, like the 5K iMac,” Lopez reports. “Problem is, that resolution is too much Macs to handle over a single cable. An integrated GPU could offload the processing to the display itself.”
“Secondly – and this one’s much more of a stretch – Apple could actually put in a powerful GPU in there,” Lopez reports. “One that could support high resolution gaming and video editing normally reserved for more powerful desktop rigs.”
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