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.
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.
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.
I don't think Qualcomm can outperform Apple at CPU game out of the blue. They were always trailing behind and Apple has now three generations of M CPUs behind. It'd be nice, though.
Edit: fixed stupid typo - can't outperform -> can outperform
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.
I really can’t imagine this going well for Qualcomm, if the article is true.
It smells like there’s a lot of smoke around their implementation of the benchmarks, and consumers will immediately discover the fire when the time arrives and devices are in-hand.
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.
That’s fine, the stock is up this quarter with all the hype, they’ll deal with the next quarter when it comes.
This reeks of “make a chip better than Apple’s or y’all are fired” and the ensuing lies throughout the company about the actual performance of the chip to appease management.
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