AMD does not have the kind of ST efficiency or battery life Qualcomm has, and now Intel with Lunar Lake will add more to the party on the latter and to an extent the former ish.
The one redeeming thing AMD had was going to at least be an IPC lead or parity on Qualcomm (who is still slightly worse than Firestorm but close) and Intel, which in tandem with 20-25% better clocks and still having parts with 8-12 cores would give them much more ST than QC in mobile (if not matching Apple too) and also more MT via IPC. It was at least an arguable thing. I think overrated, because we know how AMD and Intel are to get there and I doubt this changes *too* drastically with Strix:
But now AMD doesn’t even have much of an ST lead. 5% GB6 ST lead over Qualcomm’s top part and that’s using the 4GHz X Elite on a Surface, not a 4.2GHz one, and vs a 5.1/5.2GHz AMD Strix part. Doubtless will zap more power too.
This is pathetic. I already don’t think the tradeoffs for AMD/Intel core and SoC designs are worthwhile where they blow on things that really matter to mobile users and target high clocks, but now they’re not even doing the one thing people here thought was possible and generally mentally jerk off to — an extra 15-30% ST for a serious power payment.