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I think what it really shows is that Microsoft hasn't put much effort into making their ARM cpu device competitive. There will always be fanboys for Apple and
by MR4D 6y ago
I think what it really shows is that Microsoft hasn't put much effort into making their ARM cpu device competitive.
There will always be fanboys for Apple and anyone else, but this is effectively a 2 year old CPU winning on a benchmark where I don't think anyone thought it would. That suggests that when the real hardware comes out that it will make Microsoft's ARM efforts look downright anemic.
Of course, I might be wrong, but based on Apple's history, I think I'll be proven right by January.
This leads to the next question - why is Microsoft's device so slow? Are they doing this on purpose or due to a technical limitation? Or some other reason?
- GeekyBear 6y agoIt's probably not fair to blame Microsoft for the performance of a chip developed by Qualcomm. At one point Qualcomm developed it's own high performance custom ARM cores, but after a huge fumble on their transition to 64 bit, they just gave up and started licensing stock ARM cores. ARM is getting ready to license a higher performance extra-big core to anyone interested, so there should be some movement there in the not too distant future. However, you can definitely blame Microsoft for making a bad call on emulating legacy Win32 software. They tried to transition to ARM based WindowsRT without supporting legacy x86 software at all. Even today, Windows on ARM doesn't support legacy x86 64 bit programs.
- panpanna 6y ago> they just gave up and started licensing stock ARM cores. This is not correct. Their CPUs are heavily modified, just not very well executed. The problem is that Qualcomm puts most its efforts on other parts of the soc, such as the stupid ML coprocessor. Now you have like 5-6 different DSP-like coprocessors. Edit: oh, and 5G. They spent $$$$ to be the first with working 5G modems that nobody needs.