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Re:PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU perfor... by aurareturn on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:16PM (#43021051)
Except that the Snapdragon X Elite is actually faster than both AMD and Intel chips on average.
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Re:PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU perfor... by adrian_b on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @04:55AM (#43023705)
It is faster only for the things that casual users do, which are not computation-intensive.

It is slower for scientific/technical computing or anything else that contains great amounts of operations with either arrays or big numbers.

Even for the things where the Qualcomm CPUs may be faster, their performance per dollar is inferior to the Intel/AMD CPUs.

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