Don't listen to him, don't let marketing misuse the word ultimate. They've already ruined Pro(fessional).
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Dell actually sells a Snapdragon laptop. This is surprising.
What's even better is that for $500, you are getting an 8cx Gen 3.
Hmm. Idk. That Inspiron 14 is a much lower end laptop than the Thinkpad X13s.Half of price of ThinkPad X13s, this is real cost of Qualcomm 8cx Gen3.
I am afraid X Elite will price above $1K initially due to OEMs positioning ...
Don't listen to him, don't let marketing misuse the word ultimate. They've already ruined Pro(fessional).
Even if he isn't directly involved in the naming, he might atleast some influence in the matter. Anyways, he could pass on the feedback to the relevant people.I doubt he has any control over the naming anyway. He's an engineering VP, marketing controls product naming not the guys who design the products.
LibreOffice has native ARM version? That's cool. So the Officd software is covered then (MS Office is also native).My AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U work laptop is well past three years so technically it should have been replaced already. However... Changing it now would be a bit meh since much better options are going to be released than what's currently available.
If X Elite laptops turn out great, I'd definitely consider those. Git for Windows is basically in beta but I'd normally use WSL2 Ubuntu anyway... It would be nice if Google drive had ARM application since that makes backuping easier. Other than that all tools/random software that I would use have native builds available.
By the way, LibreOffice has native builds now. GIMP too.
Even if he isn't directly involved in the naming, he might atleast some influence in the matter. Anyways, he could pass on the feedback to the relevant people.
Lmao, I straight up don’t believe Apple is going to get a 20% boost on N3 just going N3B to N3E with a tweak. The A17 already was the new core generation that as rumored from years back by Dylan and while I think they will certainly change a few things, they are at 3.78GHz and on N3 already.View attachment 93009
First A18 leak is here, and it puts Oryon in a bad light.
Oryon CPU in 8G4 does ~2800 in GB6 ST.
If this A18 leak is true, then A18 will have a comprehensive 25% ST performance advantage over 8G4 Oryon.
What's the use of the expensive Oryon custom core project if they are not able to atleast come close to Apple's ST performance?
Well it was a redesign they were straightforward about unlike with the A15 and A16 where at best they mentioned some power gains for the cores alone in the A16, likely due to a new phy des. This matches (Apple mentioning it) Dylan’s leak. Major at this point is somewhat relative. There’s not a really *good* reason to believe Apple have a Zen 5-tier (rumors put Zen 5 above 15% btw) they’ll pull out of a hat one off year when they’ve lost chief talent and have taken a very incremental approach for several years now — even the A13 to A14 was mid single digits. I’ve heard this story before about the A15, the A16, then the magnitude of the A17/M3 changes. Mind you, Apple updates more frequently than Intel and AMD, so this adds up, and even the A14 -> A16 had some nonzero IPC gain probably partly from greater L2.Do we know that A17 really was a major core upgrade? Given the very lackluster performance gains (almost all from frequency increase) either it wasn't (and perhaps A18 might be where we see that) or it was but the initial version was mostly laying the groundwork for future improvements that couldn't be made on N3B (in other words, maybe the redesign relies on FinFlex to be able to place faster transistors in certain blocks)
Like I said before I'm highly skeptical of the A18 leak just because of how early in the year it is, but when AMD is claiming 15% or greater IPC gains with Zen 5, and most aren't too skeptical of those claims, why would it be hard to believe Apple could have similar IPC gains, especially when they have not been gaining much on that front in the last few years and could be seen as "overdue" for bigger IPC impacting core changes.
I think it’s actually possible that N3E improved yields, a new physical design tweak with FinFLEX (I’ve thought the same thing, too, Doug) in tandem with another architectural improvement bring another 5-10% in total maybe, I just wouldn’t bet on 20% given where they already are with power (higher than ever, sort of pushing it even with improved efficiency), frequency, architectural size, node.
That is a garbage chart and most certainly does NOT represent market share. The PC TAM is far too large for there to be quarter to quarter swings like that. They are likely measuring units sold, instead.View attachment 93451
This chart counts both dGPUs and iGPUs.
We know Nvidia only sells dGPUs, but they only have 18% marketshare!
That means the majority of PCs don't have a dGPU.
So tell me, is it really that important that X Elite should pair with a dGPU?
Sir this is Qualcomm threadI am willing to bet this is bullshit. Last year also at this point we had all kinds of crazy rumors around A17. No way they are bumping 20%. There are limits to increasing clock speed for mobile soc and its already 9-wide core with tons of cache. Considering SRAM is at N5 level size than N3B, there is no way they will increase the cache.
It's not true that Adreno GPUs are better at gaming. iOS games usually target higher resolutions, better textures, and more advanced effects. You can't compare FPS to FPS between iOS/Android."Qualcomm Adreno GPUs have better gaming (graphics) performance, but Apple GPUs have better compute (GPGPU) performance".
How true is this statement?
It is possible to pull up an objective comparison using benchmarks?It's not true that Adreno GPUs are better at gaming. iOS games usually target higher resolutions, better textures, and more advanced effects. You can't compare FPS to FPS between iOS/Android.
The fact that Apple GPUs are better at compute should already tell you that they're also just straight up more powerful.