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I'm just eager to see how much improvement Qualcomm can pack into these, given the previous ones were 1st gen. I'm hoping they can catch Apple (or, at least the performance of the last Apple cores to be made on whatever node Qualcomm ends up using).

Also, I'm hoping they're ARMv9-A and feature a decent SVE2 implementation.
 
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18 cores is all fine and dandy on a mobile chip, but what about the iGPU and memory bandwidth?

IMO, the current benchmark to beat is SteamOS/bazzite/Linux on an Ryzen 7840/Z1X/Z2X for efficient and mobile, which is 8-core CPU, 12CU GPU, 120GB/s memory bandwidth.
If you want to go money is no object, fully decked out mobile, you get a Ryzen 395 with 16-cores, 40CU, and 256GB/s memory bandwidth.

and if you want overpriced, stuck on Win11, and 2 (now 3) generations behind, you get a Snapdragon X Elite with Adreno X1.
Snapdragon is great on Android, but this Win11 foray feels illfated. The drivers feel as polished as Mediatek on Android.
 
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Notton said:
The drivers feel as polished as Mediatek on Android.
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there's nothing wrong with MediaTek on Android. the Dimensity 9400e is currently one of the most efficient SOC in the mobile world rn. Notebookcheck website confirmed it in a recent article with hands on benchmark tests.
 
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hush now said:
there's nothing wrong with MediaTek on Android. the Dimensity 9400e is currently one of the most efficient SOC in the mobile world rn. Notebookcheck website confirmed it in a recent article with hands on benchmark tests.
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Have you tried streaming a game on it, as in decoding over steam link (remote play), or moonlight/Artemis?
because >30ms to decode video is unforgivable for such a high end device. Funny thing is, the low end G99 has similar decode times.
Where as a Snapdragon 7 is <5ms. Even the SD680/685 will pull off <20ms.
This is all 1080p/60 streaming.
 
Have to say it's basically useless to me rn.

I rly love things like long battery life. However, Qualcomm seems reluctant to help with the Linux support. Needs to wait longer until at least the communities/canonical finished dealing with x elite.
 
 
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Huh? They seem quite active, from what I can tell:
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Yea but still far away from production ready

https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-benchmarks

I kept watching the progress since the release and, maybe I'm too pessimistic, to me I saw Qualcomm is losing their interest in supporting Linux. (I don't blame them cuz it didn't sell well even for windows laptops).

On the other side, I totally understand it's pretty difficult to work on drivers, and that's why I'm still waiting for laptops from tuxedo to release.
 
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Whatever Qualcomm does, I hope they don't use the corny name of X2 Ultra Premium lol.

Consumers already expect a premium package when they buy a product with the name Ultra in it. Imagine Samsung selling Galaxy S25 Ultra Premium or Apple selling Apple Watch Ultra 2 Premium lmao.
 
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Huh? They seem quite active, from what I can tell:
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Qualcomm seems somewhat lower than AMD-level active in the sense that they put out a barebones that barely works in some cases and then they hope that "the community" will pick up the slack on their behalf.

How long have we been waiting for proper OpenCL on AMD cards? It seems to me to be like that on the same level or so.

I don't see how it could be said that Qualcomm's Linux driver situation can be considered day-one supported in the same way it is on Windows.
 
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How long have we been waiting for proper OpenCL on AMD cards? It seems to me to be like that on the same level or so.
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That's getting a bit off-topic, but AMD does support OpenCL on the ROCm-supported cards. What was "abandon-ware" was the CLover OpenCL they initially worked on, in Mesa. The community decided to dump that, in favor of RustiCL, which is now going quite well (not that I've personally used it, yet).

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I don't see how it could be said that Qualcomm's Linux driver situation can be considered day-one supported in the same way it is on Windows.
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That wasn't the claim. The statement I responded to was that they're being "reluctant". Nothing in their activity, over the past few years, looks to me like reluctance. Sure, it's not at the level that I would like to see, but I wouldn't call it reluctant.
 
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Reservations in regard to Qualcomm's Linux support all seem to be present.
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True, but day 1 Linux support has always been a little rough, especially for laptops. Intel definitely has the best track record, on that front. AMD has come a long way, but you still wouldn't catch me preordering an AMD laptop to run Linux on. I'd try to wait a couple of months and see how it's working for others.
 
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Just say no to anything now that has onboard memory or storage, this is just a rip off designed to upsell as the manufacturers plan in obsolesce dates by limiting users rights and ability to upgrade in the future.
 
I'm mostly curious about cluster sizes and design with this forthcoming generation. The mobile v2 had different cluster sizes and cache structure and I could see the benefits of that design carry over for laptops. It'll also be interesting to see if they're planning on expanding the market footprint this generation.
 
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