They can encode AV1 even. Really amazing, amazing chips for the price.

The "stupid" thing with them (maybe) is that they cannot do anything exceptionally good, and that while having compatibility problems. They are cheap yes, but there are many other chips for the same price, and while they are less capable, they are more compatible.

Make A380 cost 30% less or invest way more to the drivers and IMHO it'd been completely different.

Another nice thing—it looked like Intel was lagging AMD in PCIe lane counts, until somewhat recently. I suspect selling GPUs has put them in the headspace of thinking of PCIe lanes as a real figure of merit.

I am basically biased towards discrete GPU = asking for trouble in Linux.

Driver stability, less heat and fan noise, battery life is almost assured in the Intel iGPU.

On the question of integrated versus discrete GPUs, what are the practical differences?

I am trying to learn this but having difficulty finding good explanations. I know the Wikipedia-level overview, but need more details.