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The Exiled · 07.05.2025., 16:45

Mislil sam na ove sad aktualne Snapdragon X modele koji su u Windows ARM laptopima.

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Citiraj:

nVidia N1X and N1 SoC for desktop and laptop PCs expected to debut at Computex

Citiraj:

The N1X series is supposedly designed for desktops, while the N1 (without X) would target laptops. An official introduction is expected during either the MediaTek or nVidia keynote. The N1 series is said to be derived from the SoC developed for DGX Spark, a Mini-PC featuring an ARM-based CPU and a Blackwell-based GPU. The DGX Spark version includes a Grace CPU with 20 ARM cores: 10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725, and a Blackwell GPU capable of delivering 1 PFLOP of compute at FP4 precision. It also comes with up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, matching configurations seen in Mac Studio and certain Ryzen AI MAX systems, enabling support for large language models.

However, according to ComputerBase, the consumer version of the N1 may feature fewer cores, possibly 8 to 12, and reduced memory support, likely between 16GB and 32GB. As a result, N1-based PCs would be significantly cheaper, unlike the DGX Spark, which costs over $3000. nVidia is keeping specifications under wraps, and there are still more questions than answers regarding the N1 debut. Hopefully, nVidia has learned from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Elite launch and avoids rolling out premium-only options backed by sponsored reviews, which only hurt initial reception.

Izvor: ComputerBase

Citiraj:

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. Intel

Citiraj:

Now approaching the one year point, the overall state of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite support and performance is rather disappointing. Here's a look at where things currently are and performance relative to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core Ultra when making use of the latest Ubuntu Linux support. Treat this as just the preliminary benchmarks for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite on Linux. As mentioned there isn't the CPU/SoC power monitoring ability at the moment under Linux so can't compare the X1E-78-100 to the AMD Ryzen and Intel Core power findings.

Overall the Snapdragon X Elite within the Acer Swift 14 AI came out just ahead of the Core i7 1185G7 "Tiger Lake" laptop and similar to the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Well behind the very newest AMD Strix Point (Zen 5) and Intel Lunar Lake generation parts. The Snapdragon X Elite on Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 25.04 did have some nice wins in the Firefox browser performance, some creator applications, and other workloads that are well tuned for AArch64, but overall was very mixed.

For most of the workloads, the AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" and Intel Lunar Lake processors were delivering much better performance and they have also advanced nicely for showing x86_64 power efficiency. Yes, the Snapdragon X Elite is nearly a one year old platform now but still not even fully working under Linux and thus who knows how long until the Linux support is in good shape for the Snapdragon X Elite 2 / X2 Elite or whatever the next-generation Snapdragon laptop SoCs will be called. In any event it was an interesting initial experience with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite on Ubuntu Linux and fairly straight-forward. Hopefully by the time of the Ubuntu 25.10 or Ubuntu 26.04 LTS releases the ARM64 desktop image will be in much better shape.

Izvor: Phoronix