I wonder how many years of evidence to the contrary it will take to convince tech journos to stop calling Qualcomm chips "powerful":https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-sets-galaxy-s9-unveiling-for-feb-25-mwc-2018/ …
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Or perhaps CNet expects us to read it literally, as in: "this is a powerful chip, it requires more watts to perform the same amount of work"? /cc
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Just talked to Linley Gwennap of Linley Group: "We just published our analysis of the Snapdragon 845, and it matches up well against the highest-performing processors available in smartphones, including Apple and Huawei." cc
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Fascinating. I'd love it if this pans out in real world workloads, but there's a decade of reasons for skepticism.
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If the caches are what's described here, they'll remain 2+ generations behind and only compete w/ bench thermal setups:https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/12/07/qualcomm_snapdragon_845/ …
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There's more detail here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12114/qualcomm-announces-snapdragon-845-soc … L3 separate to system cache will help. Reason for limited optimism. Maybe only one gen behind?
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