The more I look into the details the more gotacha’s I see.
LPDDR5X @ 8533Mbps, which is going to be expensive and affects every benchmark run, even Cinebench 2024 is now memory sensitive. Likely no upgradeable SODIMM memory options for OEMs.
Considerably higher Linux scores than Windows.
GPU benchmarks perform better than the actual gaming demos they’ve shown (seen in other previews)
Geekbench and Cinebench 2024 natively support Arm, very few Windows applications and games do, they all have to be emulated from x86.
80W needed to edge out competition was more than I thought these chips were using.
Its a very good showing, but I question if it actually will be enough to convince people to use Windows on Arm, when Meteor Lake and Zen 5 should be very competitive.
The more I look into the details the more gotacha’s I see.
LPDDR5X @ 8533Mbps, which is going to be expensive and affects every benchmark run, even Cinebench 2024 is now memory sensitive. Likely no upgradeable SODIMM memory options for OEMs.
Considerably higher Linux scores than Windows.
GPU benchmarks perform better than the actual gaming demos they’ve shown (seen in other previews)
Geekbench and Cinebench 2024 natively support Arm, very few Windows applications and games do, they all have to be emulated from x86.
80W needed to edge out competition was more than I thought these chips were using.
Its a very good showing, but I question if it actually will be enough to convince people to use Windows on Arm, when Meteor Lake and Zen 5 should be very competitive.