The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is the first 5nm chipset for Windows-on-ARM laptops, 7c+ Gen 3 tags along

01 December 2021
Both chipsets offer fast 5G and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, the option for fanless designs and battery life measured in days.

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  • 02 Dec 2021

Is it at least on pair with Intel Celeron?

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    AnonD-1027450, 02 Dec 2021So why everyone are apple fanboys? Other companies can... morelike you ?

      AnonF-1006353, 02 Dec 2021Yeah great: They compared it with i-9 11900/11800H intel no... moreThe workload also involved RAW import and export test as well as Pudgetbench for Photoshop, not just h264/265 video encoding. You're including way too many "probably" in your statements and making your own argument a very unreliable one (like how you're somehow assuming the hardware acceleration hasn't been used, or MSI Creator 17 is thermally limited, either of which is unfounded). You also seem to miss the biggest highlight of the comparison, the battery drain chart, where MBP easily dominates.

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        • 02 Dec 2021

        They simplified the naming scheme when they put symbol like + and x

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          • 02 Dec 2021

          AnonD-1027450, 02 Dec 2021So why everyone are apple fanboys? Other companies can... moreThey don't need it, they don't care and they aren't sneaky by nature, because they care about an open market and open standards, not like the closed apple garden who always has to find more sneaky ways to lure more clueless people in. With high success as you can see, unfortunately. Trillion dollar company. No wonder they can now offer a competitive cpu. Just imagine what Qualcomm, AMD or Intel could offer with that buttload of money which apple is probably burning for their in-house chip development.

            Nick Tegrataker, 02 Dec 2021So how are the Windows and MacOS versions of Premiere Pro &... moreThe functionality looks pretty much identical to me between the two, but the user experience is way different. This is my personal opinion, but I found Premiere Pro for macOS to be somewhat too cluttered. But then again, that could be due to macOS's not-so-brilliant window manager. Windows has a much better window management system than macOS if you ask me.

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              Nick Tegrataker, 02 Dec 2021I suggest you actually take a look at the actual article be... moreYeah great: They compared it with i-9 11900/11800H intel notebooks, which are slower than the amd 5900HX. The used msi model probably even was limited by cooling.

              What they compared is 64 GB RAM equipped M1 Max vs 32 GB equipped Intel, 64 GB shared video memory vs 16 GB VRAM, laughable. There are Win Notebooks with more VRAM with quadro or firepro GPUs.

              What they compared are optimized h265/h264 etc. encoders for the m1 series, vs slow ass off the shelf encoders which adobe probably never optimized for Intel/AMD/Nvidia, because they weren't forced by a company like apple. They probably didn't even enable CUDA for half of the tools they used for their comparisons.

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                • 02 Dec 2021

                The way you use the word "fanboy" really brings out the "fanboy" in you.

                  Z, 02 Dec 2021Yeah basically apple fanboys set up their videos in such a ... moreThat's actually completely useless since nobody has optimised the games for MacOS, let alone ARM architecture. That's one way you can "cripple" the comparison by choosing a test that Windows excels at and MacOS doesn't due to lack of development.

                    YUKI93, 02 Dec 2021Lol, Premiere Pro for macOS has a completely different user... moreSo how are the Windows and MacOS versions of Premiere Pro "completely different" from one another, functionality or user experience wise?

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                      Z, 02 Dec 2021Yeah basically apple fanboys set up their videos in such a ... moreSo why everyone are apple fanboys?
                      Other companies can't buy and pay for reviewers?

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                        AnonD-1027450, 02 Dec 2021Oh come on why everything is fake and paid in your book? T... moreYeah basically apple fanboys set up their videos in such a way to cripple the Windows competition by using another codec or not involving the RTX GPUs properly. Max Tech is a prime example of this.

                        And Geekbench is fake because nobody is going to run workloads performed by that test. Check out FPS in games and video exporting times, performance in CAD tests because that's what matters. Also Windows VMs again don't tell the whole story, that they're subject to crashing due to wrong hypervisor configs and many apps straight up refusing to launch on VMs in the first place, let alone VMs ran via ARM CPUs, like this Snapdragon or the M1 Max.

                        So yeah Apple fanboys are spreading misinformation on multiple levels ... just like they did with the PowerPC arhitecture.

                          Hamburger, 02 Dec 2021Nope. DPreview has done tests using Adobe Premiere Pro cru... moreLol, Premiere Pro for macOS has a completely different user experience compared to Premiere Pro for Windows. After all, Adobe themselves reworked their software to work natively with Apple's M1 chipset. No surprise there, if you ask me.

                            God, this naming scheme is absolutely atrocious.

                              AnonD-762416, 02 Dec 2021Apple's GPU is pretty terrible. It's on par with ... more"Apple's GPU is pretty terrible"
                              That's one hell of a hot take, even hotter than SD888 I would say.
                              If you consider *that* to be "terrible" then the rest of the mobile GPU will be ranging from "laughable" to "downright atrocious".

                                AnonF-1006353, 02 Dec 2021Against which laptops or which gpu/cpu combination in parti... moreI suggest you actually take a look at the actual article before you "guess" the processors being used for the comparison. It's 45W Tiger Lake H paired with the RTX3000 series.

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                                  Hamburger, 02 Dec 2021And you want to talk about comparing apples with apples?? ... moreI just put it in perspecrive, as you mentioned decade old desktop chips and are then surprised when current mobile chips overtook them at some point. If you mention desktop chips, you also have to take current ones into account. You can't beat physics. Desktop chips will always be faster, if they are from the similar year.

                                  The m1 pro max fully loaded isn't that far off from desktop tdp by the way. If you double the cores/performance, power draw and heat generated will already be comparable to the desktop department.

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                                    Hamburger, 02 Dec 2021Nope. DPreview has done tests using Adobe Premiere Pro cru... moreAgainst which laptops or which gpu/cpu combination in particular? Probably some 2 year old chips

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                                      AnonF-1006353, 02 Dec 2021Because they are greedy and misleading to sell even more of... moreAnd you want to talk about comparing apples with apples?? What a joke!

                                      This new Snapdragon is for mobile laptop use. You bring in a desktop 5950x and a desktop RTX gpu.

                                      Laughable!!

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                                        AnonF-1006353, 02 Dec 2021Because they are greedy and misleading to sell even more of... moreI like what you're smoking.

                                        Mind you the M1 Max is a laptop mobile chip, an SoC one at that. Comparing to a 5950x desktop chip and how many cores and threads is that at what GHz speed? Geez....