With a discrete GPU already in the build, does the 245KF's 22 TOPS still have an AI presence?

  Yes, and the split is clean. The 245KF has no iGPU, so a discrete card boots the machine and owns heavy AI; the 22 TOPS NPU lane still works independently, taking meeting backgrounds and denoise off the GPU's power budget, while 14 cores at a 5.2GHz boost can run short INT8 bursts in VNNI on the side.

  It fits builders whose main job is gaming with light AI as a bonus, saving the cost of graphics they would never use. If no discrete GPU is planned, the machine cannot even display anything. Order matters: write the card into the parts list first, then talk about those 22 TOPS — no GPU, and the AI talk is empty.