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Intel’s Kaby Lake-G mystery: Why Radeon Vega M may be more Polaris than Vega

Intel’s Kaby Lake-G chip harbors a mystery. PCWorld has learned the company’s exciting CPU/GPU combo chip may actually be based on AMD’s older-generation Polaris cores rather than the newest Vega cores.

This revelation doesn’t change how we feel about the chip, having already tested it (and liked it) in Intel’s , which earned an Editors’ Choice award. But an industry standard system utility identifies the Kaby Lake-G as having an AMD Polaris bloodline. And

 

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