Comment on Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also important, will it be available and affordable. I don’t much care about arm laptops if they cost an arm (heh) and a leg to buy and then a couple fingers to import into the mythical and exotic land of not-US.

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Considering a severe lack of software support on ARM they better have a massive cost incentive

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As per usual, Linux is fine with ARM.

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      • Radium@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Most things are fine on arm these days. Don’t know what this person is on about

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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Linux works well but sadly most people don’t use Linux

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      • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d imagine most open source software will just be perfectly fine on ARM on Linux… but I do wonder a little bit about the occasional x86 binary blob we run. They’re generally pretty rare in Linux land… but things like Steam are probably not going to have a great time. I’ve used binfmt_misc to run ARM binaries on x86 transparently before using qemu, and it works perfectly fine… but it’s dog slow.

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• Radium@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  M3 is available starting next week so not very.

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• Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The answer is in the article…

  It is worth noting that by the time Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite hits store shelves, Apple’s M3 line of CPUs (which are expected to be announced this week) and Intel’s next-gen Meteor Lake laptops processors with its beefy NPU and GPU, will be the new competition.

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’ll have to compete in price to have any chance

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    • darkevilmac@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That really depends on the TDP of the Intel and AMD chips. Both have been progressively pumping more and more juice into their silicon lately in an attempt to be the “fastest”.

      If Qualcomm is within spitting distance at a much lower TDP then this might actually be the beginning of the end for x86.

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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I guess we’ll have to wait for price, benchmarks, and battery life

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• eek2121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The M3 was announced yesterday: arstechnica.com/…/everything-to-know-about-apples…

  It will be out before these chips are. So will next gen x86-64 chips, Zen 5 at least, and possibly Intel Arrow Lake depending on timing.

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• gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple just announced it it’s M3 line processors, and they’re shipping next week.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t know how to read an article?

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