This ARM-based chip will enable true Windows-running competitors to Apple's laptops powered by its own M series chips. Following a couple of recent leaks,...
Can’t wait to see how these compares to the M series from Apple. More competitions should be good for both platforms, forcing them to push performance further.
According to Qualcomm’s own benchmarks they blow Apple out of the water. Of course that needs to be taken with a dumpster full of salt but if it’s even remotely that good, it’s very good news for everyone.
I wonder how Linux would run on these? Like ARM is ARM, right?
I dunno… I saw another press release that said it only beat the M3 in multi-core by about 8%, which is hardly “blown out of the water”, especially for a 9-month-old processor, and Qualcomm didn’t release single-core benchmarks, probably because they didn’t outperform the M3 at all. And Apple will be announcing the M4 line soon, expected to release Q3 or Q4 2024 for M4/M4 Pro, with Max and Ultra in Q1/2 2025.
But it is, by all measure, a very good competitor to Apple’s M-series chips which have, until now, been unavailable to anyone but them, which is crappy.
Can’t wait to see how these compares to the M series from Apple. More competitions should be good for both platforms, forcing them to push performance further.
According to Qualcomm’s own benchmarks they blow Apple out of the water. Of course that needs to be taken with a dumpster full of salt but if it’s even remotely that good, it’s very good news for everyone.
I wonder how Linux would run on these? Like ARM is ARM, right?
I dunno… I saw another press release that said it only beat the M3 in multi-core by about 8%, which is hardly “blown out of the water”, especially for a 9-month-old processor, and Qualcomm didn’t release single-core benchmarks, probably because they didn’t outperform the M3 at all. And Apple will be announcing the M4 line soon, expected to release Q3 or Q4 2024 for M4/M4 Pro, with Max and Ultra in Q1/2 2025.
But it is, by all measure, a very good competitor to Apple’s M-series chips which have, until now, been unavailable to anyone but them, which is crappy.