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Is Qualcomm actually catching up with Apple on CPU? (I haven’t been tracking it).
by gumby 3y ago
Is Qualcomm actually catching up with Apple on CPU? (I haven’t been tracking it).
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoSeems so. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarks that dropped yesterday with the Samsung S24 Ultra put it on par or above Apple's A17 Pro or whatever their most high end phone SoC is.
- mchanson 3y agoSingle core still lags way behind. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has same single core at a 3 year old A15. They are staying even / besting apple in multicore through adding more cores than apple does.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoTo be fair, Geekbench is a relatively poor representation of real world performance. It's heavily used since it's one of the few benchmarks that works across all major platforms and architectures, making comparisons easy, but not necessarily realistic.
- wyldfire 3y agoThis is regarding reference CPU designs from ARM. Qualcomm plans to use the Oryon cores from their Nuvia acquisition.
- wmf 3y agoYes, Qualcomm Oryon is tied with Apple A17/M3 although it's coming out 9-16 months later.
- phantompeace 3y agoCan we really make confident predictions for chips that are a year out from release?
- wmf 3y agoIt's finished and benchmarks are out there.
- wmf 3y agoAhem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044312
- mannyv 3y agoThe 0ryon hasn't come out yet, so it's hard to tell what's really happening with it.