Re:New Arm Cores Deliver Up to 40% Better Performance
by kitsunesoba on Monday May 29, 2023 @12:53AM
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Phones are in decent shape but other ARM devices aren't so lucky. A lot of Android tablets sitting at low-midrange and below have extremely weak CPUs for example, even those costing $200-$300 which was a bit of a shock for me. I have a ~$210 2022 Lenovo tablet that is outperformed handily by 2018 midrange Pixel 3XL, which seems a bit silly.
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Re:New Arm Cores Deliver Up to 40% Better Performance
by qball on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:23AM
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>Phones are in decent shape but other ARM devices aren't so lucky.
Yes, but that's because Qualcomm and Samsung are about as incompetent at CPU design as early-2010s AMD was; their products have been 3-4 years behind the leading edge for the past decade.
This might change with Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia, but they're still going to take a few years to be comparable with what you can get in a 400-dollar iPhone/iPad and be unavailable in the sub-1000 dollar Android market (just like the Snapdragon 888- whose performance is on par with the 2nd gen iPhone SE- is today).