The upcoming Qualcomm chip certainly looks good… in the synthetic benchmarks we’ve seen so far.
ARM devices, particularly on windows, often look good in synthetic workloads, but falter in real-world tasks.
Yeah, right now the benchmarks are competitive… with AMD’s chips from last year. When the Snapdragon X Elite comes out, it’ll be against AMD’s Strix chips (although those are delayed), which will be a sizable performance uplift, and won’t have to do any x86-to-ARM translation.
Both Intel and AMD will lose some potential market share, sure, but I’m tired of people who don’t know what they’re talking about acting like Qualcomm will be able to crush AMD or Intel just because they use an ARM CPU. It’s not how things work.
The ARM architecture does apparently (I’m no expert) have some inherent power-efficiency advantages over x86, and it sounds like the Snapdragon X Elite will be specifically designed for high-performance mobile computing with low power consumption like the Apple M-series chips. So, all else being equal, you’d expect Qualcomm to have an advantage in laptops with this chip, but all else isn’t equal because the software isn’t there yet, and no one in the PC market is quite in a position to kickstart the software development like Apple is with Macs.
The upcoming Qualcomm chip certainly looks good… in the synthetic benchmarks we’ve seen so far.
ARM devices, particularly on windows, often look good in synthetic workloads, but falter in real-world tasks.
Yeah, right now the benchmarks are competitive… with AMD’s chips from last year. When the Snapdragon X Elite comes out, it’ll be against AMD’s Strix chips (although those are delayed), which will be a sizable performance uplift, and won’t have to do any x86-to-ARM translation.
Both Intel and AMD will lose some potential market share, sure, but I’m tired of people who don’t know what they’re talking about acting like Qualcomm will be able to crush AMD or Intel just because they use an ARM CPU. It’s not how things work.
The ARM architecture does apparently (I’m no expert) have some inherent power-efficiency advantages over x86, and it sounds like the Snapdragon X Elite will be specifically designed for high-performance mobile computing with low power consumption like the Apple M-series chips. So, all else being equal, you’d expect Qualcomm to have an advantage in laptops with this chip, but all else isn’t equal because the software isn’t there yet, and no one in the PC market is quite in a position to kickstart the software development like Apple is with Macs.