Oh yeah, forgot about the turbo-finns.Don't forget Remedy or gullible indies.
We calling it "WARM" now?Looks like there's a golden opportunity for some indie devs to write some native WARM games, assuming these X Elite systems sell in non-zero quantity.
Well, SDXE is launching in the middle of this year, so it's only effectively going to be sold for the second half.Out of ~265m units PC TAM?
PC TAM is H2 skewed (back to school, holidays, black fridays etc), particularly this year.So we'll have to divide that 265m figure by half, which will br 130m
Shill noise to volume ratio very bad.Not bad?
So is Strix, and LNL is even later!Well, SDXE is launching in the middle of this year, so it's only effectively going to be sold for the second half.
This is the 5th gen of WoA stuff from QC.I think the second or the third generations will be good enough for regular customers
Nope.Does TimeSpy run natively on ARM?
This time, Qualcomm decided to change the approach.This is the 5th gen of WoA stuff from QC.
(835 -> 850 -> 8cx g1 -> 8cx g3 -> esxcks elite).
Should be good enough by now!
This is why we need all the reviewers to switch to 3DMark Steel Nomad/Light.Nope.
Ignore it, that's an x86 contest.
That's not my point.This time, Qualcomm decided to change the approach.
It's the new thing and will take time for wider adoption.This is why we need all the reviewers to switch to 3DMark Steel Nomad/Light.
It's cross platform, and runs from anything from a budget smartphone to the top dog RTX 4090. Steel Nomad Light should be standard for GPU benchmarking.
There is a lot of work to be done on the software side:That's not my point.
They had ample time to do all the ISV work yet here we are.
I wonder what "test platform" Apple released to the public? M1 was perfect the moment it came out and aged like fine wine (excluding the 8GB configs).There is a lot of work to be done on the software side:
- UEFI firmware
- Drivers for GPU and other components
- ARM translation layer (Prism)
- Software and games
It will take years to make it work without noticeable issues. That's why Qualcomm decided to start with thin and light devices with no powerful GPU. There are many other problems to fix first before jumping into issues with GPU drivers and games.
So, if you consider Snapdragon X Elite as a test platform, it's not so bad. At least it offers some competitive performance, battery life, and a pretty good price. That's good enough.
Intel also has a test platform called Meteor Lake. That's normal.
X Elite already has the PCIe lanes for dGPU, iirc.
Looks like there's a golden opportunity for some indie devs to write some native WARM games, assuming these X Elite systems sell in non-zero quantity.
They had Axx chips on the HW side.I wonder what "test platform" Apple released to the public? M1 was perfect the moment it came out and aged like fine wine (excluding the 8GB configs).
Nope their first iteration was on point but those are benefits of owning the whole stack.
I really hope that Lunar Lake is not a one time thing. It would keep Apple/QC on their toes.
Battery life in the Surface Laptop seems much better than the Vivobook.100% => 97% Battery: After watching an hour of few full HD (1080p) YouTube videos on Chrome at 75% brightness with speaker, my battery is still at 97%! And to top it off, I had forgotten to close Edge, which had several tabs open in the background.
97% => 73% Battery: After 2 hours of intense work, with the first hour spent running more benchmarks and downloading Photoshop, as well as downloading various software and files, I lost 15% of battery. However, during the second hour, while working normally, I only lost 9% in 1 hour. I have 73% battery left after 3 hours and 10 minutes.
73% => 62% Battery: 1h30 of online stuff on Chrome (canvas, doc, video, lot of tab), edge and slack open (call) and download all the MAJ. when you run ARM app you never lost battery
After 6h of work, install Maj, play with Photoshop, make some slack call and have Chrome and Edge open with 10tabs +. Still have 52% battery
After 8h30 on battery, I have 36% left: In the last 2:30 hours, I spent some time on Twitch, checked some YouTube videos, downloaded Windows updates (again), and used Google Docs + Slack in a taxi connected remotely to my phone.
CoreML vs DirectML maybe?
X Elite gets creamed by Apple M4 in Geekbench ML benchmark (run on the GPUs).
Kinda sad when they've announced like 20 designs (Intel announced 80) and had a big promise to deliver.Well, SDXE is launching in the middle of this year, so it's only effectively going to be sold for the second half.
So we'll have to divide that 265m figure by half, which will br 130m
2m is 1.5% of 130m. Not bad?
Oh man I wish Exist50 were still active here, lol. That’s all I’m going to say, and I’m usually not cynical about AMD in servers.Oh no, retaliation is in order.
The several million laptops QC sells by EOY25 will be selected, e.g. not random from genpop of laptop sales. His indie idea isn’t really terrible. Granted, the pricing is hardly bad, and I won’t claim it’s some luxury, but it’s an ~~ entry premium to premium part lineup.Is the installed base going to hit 0.1% by the end of 2024?
Installed base is what you write software to.