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Strix Point's memory bandwidth bottleneck seems to grow with every single leak.
First, no SLC.
Now, no memory speed upgrade.
Poor 16 CU iGPU and 50 TOPS NPU.
That means perhaps the upcoming ARM Cortex X5 will support SME2.
Cortex X5 announcement is very near (next month?), and Android chips with it will be available by the end of the year.
The ARM Cortex X4/A720/A520 utilised ARMv9.2 for the first time. SME2/SVE2 is part of ARMv9.2 But it seems X4/A720/A520 doesn't support SME2/SVE2 either way.
Well well well.
What could it be?
Apple isn't going to implement SME (they have their own custom AMX).
ARM already has implemented SME2 and SVE2 on their latest cores.
But Oryon is based on ARMv8 and doesn't have either SVE2 or SME2. Maybe.... Next gen Oryon core (Pegasus) adds support for...
But is extra cache really going to help?
For example, despite the added V-cache, AMD's X3D parts are slightly slower than the non-X3D parts, in ST benchmarks.
Apple does pretty well in CB2024;
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cinebench_2024_multi_core
The M3 Max (12P+4E) rivals the Ryzen 7945HX (16P/32T). Both do about ~1600 points.
Isn't GB5 deprecated?
.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M3-Pro-M3-Max-analysis-Apple-has-significantly-upgraded-its-Max-CPU.782974.0.html
So X Elite consumes more power than M3 Max in CB2024, while also delivering less performance.
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I already guessed it before X Plus was announced:
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/qualcomm-snapdragon-thread.2616013/post-41196292
Fine, let's wait till 8G4 is announced.
Chips and Cheese just dropped an article reviewing the GPU in the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3.
https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/04/24/sizing-up-qualcomms-8cx-gen-3-igpu/
This is the first time they are reviewing a Snapdragon PC SoC. Enjoy!
PS: I hope they review the Snapdragon X Elite too, when it...
I am yet to confirm the authenticity of this slide, but it is showing the X Elite consuming almost 70W in Cinebench 2024 MT, which is far higher than the 40W in Geekbench 6 MT.
Will Strix Point iGPU be able match/exceed RTX 3050 mobile?
This might be a hot-take. In my opinion, a 128 bit APU should be able to match atleast a 2 generation old RTX xx50 dGPU.
X Plus' GPU consumes only 20W, about 33% less than X Elite's.
X Plus = 20W = 3.8 TFLOPS
X Elite = 30W = 4.6 TFLOPS
Clearly there has been a large frequency reduction to cut the power consumption by 1/3rd, despite only reducing performance by ~17%
Everybody seems to be talking about the cheating allegations Charlie makes in his article, but is nobody willing to discuss the other point? That Qualcomm has been incredibly sparse in disclosing the technical details of their chips. For the CPU, other than the clock speeds and core count, we...
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