> Benchmarks from Qualcomm suggest that the new Snapdragon can not only catch up with the competition, but also clearly outperform Apple’s M2 SoCs whilst showing higher energy efficiency.
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> Adreno GPU with 1.25 GHz
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> The SoC is not suitable for high-end notebooks or gaming behemoths; it is more suited to business-class workhorses such as the Pulse or the InfinityBook Pro notebooks.
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Sadly, everything I've read about the Snapdragon X Elite - despite their marketing hype of 'outperforms Apple!' - seems to suggest it is not really competitive with Apple.
For ML, the memory bandwidth is 136GB/s[0] - while e.g. an M2 Ultra is 800GB/s and a RTX 3090 is 900GB/s. The Snapdragon X Elite sits around the memory bandwidth of a Steam Deck (100GB/s)
For gaming, benchmarks[1] seem to suggest an RTX 3050 or M2 Max are 2x better.
Not to mention the Snapdragon X Elite won't be shipped for ~6 months, while Apple is already releasing M4 chipsets.
I'm still excited we're getting decent ARM hardware for Linux, though.
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> Adreno GPU with 1.25 GHz
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> The SoC is not suitable for high-end notebooks or gaming behemoths; it is more suited to business-class workhorses such as the Pulse or the InfinityBook Pro notebooks.
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Sadly, everything I've read about the Snapdragon X Elite - despite their marketing hype of 'outperforms Apple!' - seems to suggest it is not really competitive with Apple.
For ML, the memory bandwidth is 136GB/s[0] - while e.g. an M2 Ultra is 800GB/s and a RTX 3090 is 900GB/s. The Snapdragon X Elite sits around the memory bandwidth of a Steam Deck (100GB/s)
For gaming, benchmarks[1] seem to suggest an RTX 3050 or M2 Max are 2x better.
Not to mention the Snapdragon X Elite won't be shipped for ~6 months, while Apple is already releasing M4 chipsets.
I'm still excited we're getting decent ARM hardware for Linux, though.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1cwsvsk/16_gb_r...
[1] https://videocardz.com/newz/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-adre...