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1. phkahler ◴[] No.40052383[source]
Am I missing something? These look just like the APUs with the addition of "management" and "security" features and without the iGPU. Is that right?
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2. c0l0 ◴[] No.40052780[source]
They also support ECC UDIMMs with ECC enabled, which has been the "PRO" series APU killer feature on AM4 for me. The non-"PRO" APUs will run fine with ECC UDIMMs, but cannot make use of the extra parity information (maybe for reasons of market segmentation - I don't know if anyone outside of AMD knows). This is probably less of a concern with DDR5 platforms and their "on-DIE ECC" (which you cannot monitor for Correctable Errors at least, afaik), but it's still gonna matter for me.
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3. nwah1 ◴[] No.40052887[source]
Yes. And it actually does have an iGPU, depending on which model.
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4. c0l0 ◴[] No.40053492{3}[source]
In case you don't need an integrated GPU (that's somewhat powerful/potent), you can go with any other Ryzen AM5 CPU to receive proper ECC-enabled ECC UDIMM support, afaik :)
5. pedrocr ◴[] No.40055219[source]
Since in AM5 all CPUs have a basic iGPU, for a home server all the normal CPUs already work fine. The advantage of the APUs is they're on a monolithic die so should have quite a bit lower idle power usage which is important if you have a NAS or other homelab server running 24/7.