Question Do motherboards still come with on board graphics?

[PB97]

Back in the day, a lot of motherboards used to come with a built-in gpu, this was seperate from anything that may or may not have been on the chip.

Is this still a thing for mainstream mbs, or is it only for special system such as ultra small form factors?

 

[USAFRet]

Back in the day, a lot of motherboards used to come with a built-in gpu, this was seperate from anything that may or may not have been on the chip.

Is this still a thing for mainstream mbs, or is it only for special system such as ultra small form factors?

No.

Currently, an integrated GPU system is in the CPU.
And not all CPUs have that.

 

[Eximo]

Outside of server motherboards having basic video output for service tasks and custom units with GPUs built into them most products do rely on iGPU on the CPU (APU)

All of AMD's console chips are essentially APUs with large GPUs, including the new Z1 that is now in use in some handhelds. Most Intel

Laptop motherboards are still commonly built with discrete GPUs soldered on.

But there are some fun motherboards out there that still go old school:

This Intel LGA1151 Motherboard Comes With An Embedded GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

A real freak of nature.

www.tomshardware.com

But given the power requirements, they are not going to be much more compact than using a PCIe card. And that board loses a lot of potential slot space.

 

[DSzymborski]

Back in the day, a lot of motherboards used to come with a built-in gpu, this was seperate from anything that may or may not have been on the chip.

Is this still a thing for mainstream mbs, or is it only for special system such as ultra small form factors?

Not a thing. It's simply too inefficient to be useful compared to integrated graphics directly on the CPU. I think the last mainstream consumer motherboards were some of those very early, cheap Gigabyte AM3+ motherboards that were basically older motherboards retrofit to run AM3+.

 

[Eximo]

As recent as LGA1151 and LGA2011 boards available to the consumer can have IMPI interfaces for video output. Doesn't seem to be any AM4, AM5 or LGA1200, LGA1700 boards with it though.

On AM5 all the CPUs have graphics. Intel still sells F chips without graphics.

AM4 is a little odd, you would think there would be a market for it since you might want a 16 core processor and not want a dedicated graphics card taking up space.