If this is true it will be devastating for Qualcomm … they hyped the new chips big time, and some huge manufacturers happily announced products with the new chip. So if this falls flat, a few influential players will not be happy at all…
Not to mention the rest of the tech media… they will happily sell the pitchforks and torches.
Wow, how disappointing. One of the quotes say they got less than half as much performance as was promised, I’m hoping it’s a driver issue and not just outright scam marketing.
Both reported numbers that were nowhere close to what Qualcomm promised. How not close? Above 50% this time but one used the term “Celeron” to describe performance.
There is no harsher way to describe the performance of a CPU. Ouch.
“Atom” is one step further beyond
Damn it man. I want arm laptops to be good. I can’t justify buying anything apple even with Asahi as good as it is now.
I remember saying months ago that Qualcomm’s offerings often look excellent in synthetic workloads but fall apart in real-world usecases, and I got downvoted to oblivion and called an x86 shill for it.
I never found it likely that Qualcomm would be able to compete with AMD, Apple, or even Intel in the short term.
I’m not sure i rate this particular article.
They seem to sort of hint at the importance of power and energy efficiency
But why did they then “ask about TDP” ? Surely they they need to know the actual input power(or energy) to achieve the benchmark, not TDP which is itself a wierd thing for chips that self regulate temperature by throttling.I’m not inclined to pay attention to this journo.
Power draw is heavily varied from fraction of a second to fraction of a second. TDP is more or less the target for average power draw over a longer period of time, and probably more importantly, something you’re more likely to get a representative to answer. They’re probably not going to give you the peak momentary power draw because it doesn’t mean anything, and they probably won’t give you average either. TDP is as much as you’re likely to get.