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I seriously doubt ARM will hit consumer desktops any time soon. Servers, where people care about power efficiency? Yes. Laptops, where people care about power e
by jakobson14 3y ago
I seriously doubt ARM will hit consumer desktops any time soon. Servers, where people care about power efficiency? Yes. Laptops, where people care about power efficiency? Yes.
But on "gaming rigs" where people are content to eat nvidia's absolute bed-shitting power consumption, and where replacing ram is a rallying cry? Not going to happen. It'll take until they're dragged along by the other two segments, sometime in 2-3 hardware generations. Maybe 2029-30 at the earliest.
- CharlesW 3y agoAn interesting aspect of this is that gaming notebooks/laptops already outsell gaming desktops by ~2:1¹, and that ratio will grow as desktops continue to become niche devices. I like your estimate, but I think it's on the conservative side by at least a couple of years. The migration from x86 to ARM will be slow until it isn't. ¹ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1003576/gaming-pc-shipments-worldwide-by-category/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1003576/gaming-pc-shipme...
- dzonga 3y agoyeah -- I like a beefy desktop. but man oh man. the power that the m-series chips on macbooks deliver is nice. light package. good performance. no noise. less power consumption. i'm sure people gaming on windows will appreciate that too -- given the success of the steamdeck. if gamers could get 2K or 4K gaming. on machines using 15-30W whether ARM or x86. then similarly us dev's would benefit as well.
- jakobson14 3y agoExpectations of a sudden, rapid transition have been made for the better part of a decade. Microsoft teamed up with qualcomm to build win10-on-ARM laptops back in 2016.