The article said:
Intel claims ‘historic’ x86 power efficiency, saying it delivers 1.2X more performance-per-watt than the Qualcomm X Elite X1E-80-100.
That's not even their lowest-power 12c model. Which Lunar Lake model did they compare it to?
The article said:
They also beat the AMD Strix Point HX370 by 3% to 33% in single-threaded tasks.
Wow, that's impressive... for AMD!
Seriously, this thing is made on TSMC N3, while Snapdragon X and Strix Point are made on N4 nodes. Is it any surprise it's faster and more efficient? I'd have thought such a node was worth more than that.
Note the position of their M3 datapoint, on this slide:
That's the baseline M3. Not even Pro or anything. It also tells us the M4 is going to kick its butt.
I also thought this slide was interesting:
Okay, so the only big win it has in productivity is when they use the QuickSync hardware encoder? I'd pay more attention to the two wins AMD got.
The article said:
Lunar Lake preorders start today, and units start shipping on September 24. If tradition holds, you'll see reviews on that date.
Oh geez. I didn't realize today was a soft launch! I was looking forward to some independent testing!