Qualcomm perseveres in laptops and embarks on portable consoles |Macgeneration

Qualcomm perseveres in laptops and embarks on portable consoles |Macgeneration

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Stéphane Moussie |

Laptops with ARM architecture released in recent years are struggling to convince, but that does not demotive one of their main instigators.Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8CX Gen 3 which must significantly improve the performance of Windows Arm machines, their big weak point.

This new processor engraved more finely (5 Nm instead of 7) is supposed to have an 85 % more powerful CPU and a 60 % more powerful GPU than its predecessor, the 8CX Gen 2. Qualcomm even speaks of 60 % high performance compared toAn X86 processor competes, but without specifying the exact reference of the Intel chip.

The designer does not go so far as to compare his new product with Apple's M1 chip which is currently leading to performance debates by Watt.In fact, Qualcomm's real response to Apple will not arrive before 2023 of its own admission.Pending this new chip which must become a reference thanks to the support of Apple alumni, the Snapdragon 8CX Gen 3 is therefore there to occupy the ground.

The Competing Qualcomm Flea of the M1 will be presented within nine months

Qualcomm also hopes to make room for another market, that of (large) portable consoles.Inspired by the phenomenal success of the Switch (which uses an NVIDIA chip) and by the upcoming launch of the Steam Deck (at Puce AMD), the company offers manufacturers a new system on the name still impossible to remember, the Snapdragon G3XGen 1, to create a device of this type.

To give weight to its announcement, Qualcomm has designed a development kit in partnership with Razer that looks like nothing other than a smartphone embedded in a large controller.This kit is notably equipped with an OLED 6.65 "120 Hz screen, 5G, Wi-Fi 6th, a 1080p webcam and a USB-C port allowing the display on an external screen to be deported4K.

In addition to the question of autonomy which is not addressed, one wonders if such a device has an interest in playing games ... Android.The Steam Deck proposal is different: it is a question of playing PC games on mobility on the equivalent of a switch.In the case of the new Qualcomm project, Android games are of course already playable on mobile.At a time when "gamer" smartphones are less than € 500, the price of these future Android consoles will be decisive.


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Furious Angel |

The rocking will be slow and laborious in the pc world ... but it is inevitable

nicolas |

Qualcomm persévère dans les ordinateurs portables et se lance dans les consoles portables | MacGeneration

Linux can help.The Raspberry Pi gave a real accelerator to carry current distributions on the Arm Aarch64 architecture.

There are a few chromebook motivated by Snapdragon 7C, rare PCs under 8c/8cx.I do not know if you can easily install linux on it.

Furious Angel |

@nicolas

Yeah but Linux it remains for a few geeks, not enough to cause a rocking.

Ghaleon111 |

@Furious Angel

The steam deck and these record pre -orders is good for the future of video games on Linux.

nicolas |

Certainly, but thanks to the rise of chromebooks in the USA, we may have an increasing number of consumer PCs under ARM, whose equipment is immediately compatible with the Linux nucleus. The community to promoteThe consumer distributions, which are much more complete bones and respectful of privacy than Chromeos ...

Glop0606 |

Sometimes I wonder where people find time to invest in as much entertainment?If we only talk about the field of video games we already have a plethora of offers, to spend his life there.Switch, xbox, play, smartphone coupled with cans buffet offers at will, ... add Netflix, Spotify, etc ... so that Qualcomm thinks that there is still room ... leaves me perplexed ... Y'has larger ones who have planted well.

debione |

@ Glop0606: the specificity of Qualcomm is not to make a new console, but to demonstrate that these solutions are possible everywhere.(The Switch could very well have a Qualcomm engine rather than Nvidia in the future for example) Qualcomm has absolutely nothing to do with what Apple does for example at the SOC level.The or one is content to do that for him and in an ultra specific way, the Qualcomm chips you can find them everywhere.From your coffee machine to the last smartphone.

brunnno |

@Glop0606

In addition Sony abandoned the PSP which was on this portable console segment.

pacolapo |

On the one hand I am happy for Apple to have such a lead, on the other side, I say, even if it can help, it's not that the one will move the buttocks of Microsoft to go out Windows Arm Grandpublic for those who have machines of this type ...

rolmeyer |

We have them the benchings of the CX3…. Memorifying significantly…. You must believe it.Going from ultra slow to slow it is true that it is improving…. Let’s still, almost everyone who had a Windowsarm PC in their hands says the same thing….

nicolas |

It is necessary to put into perspective in electricity consumption. The previous generations of 8CX consumed 7W, where the M1 consumes 20. If the Gen 3 is in the same orders of magnitude, the Perf/W ratio is still very encouraging !!

rolmeyer |

@nicolas

If…. Everything is said to be.RAM is only LPDDR 4, a Samsung S21 beast is already 5 like M1.And let's admit that the M1 equivalent of the Qualcomm is coming in 2023, Apple will be per m3 already. It's not to do Qualcomm Bashing, because Apple M1 is the fruit of 10 years of work on fleas has iPhones/iPads, it does not catch up with a snap.

en chanson |

@Rolmeyer

Apple is at the origin of Arm are you going to tell us?

Un Type Vrai |

@en song: Arm is founded in the form of a joint venture by Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (today Apple Inc.) and Vlsi Technology.

en chanson |

@Un True Type

Yes, that's other manufacturers make ARM well before Apple.

baptiste2097 |

Wouaouh!Even the Game Gear is less ugly 🥴

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