Rumor is that Zen 6 will replace the iGPU with an NPU on desktop processors

Can anyone think of a good use for this if it ends up being true? Unless the workload can somehow be split between the NPU and a dedicated GPU, I suspect it'll only be able to run small models.

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2026-10-14 12:50 · r/LocalLLaMA
Rumor is that Zen 6 will replace the iGPU with an NPU on desktop processors

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