Qualcomm plans to design an M1 competitor for PCs—sans ARM

5    03 Jul 2021 17:17 by u/VILLAIN

7 comments

3 u/Lou 03 Jul 2021 17:22
Exciting
2 u/None 03 Jul 2021 20:04
Good. I am on a laptop with the M1 right now, and it is as good as they say. So fast and energy efficient.
1 u/None 03 Jul 2021 17:35
When ~~windows~~ games run natively on the new processor and a laptop can last all day doing it, then desktops will truly die. At most we will have GPUs in cases for another few years.
2 u/package 03 Jul 2021 22:06
You say this like neither games nor desktop processors will scale to fill the headroom of a more powerful architecture. Just like batteries, more efficient tech just means more demanding hardware, not longer battery life.
3 u/None 03 Jul 2021 22:23
You should look into the differences between instructions per clock cycle for Intel/AMD vs Arm or RISC-V. My M1 mac is not only faster than the i7 mac from last year I traded in, I can work all day, charge my phone, and still have 40% battery when I get home. This is a paradigm shift in personal computing and Intel and AMD are done. No one is going to buy a laptop that lasts 3 hours under light load when the faster machine lasts more than all day doing actual work. Arm is already faster at a fraction of the power.
3 u/None 04 Jul 2021 01:39
Yup. Instant load times on pretty much any webpages, faster than my 2K gaming computer at loading this site for example. I've been using it all day and still at 82% battery life. Plus this MacBook Air is fanless and really low heat. It's actually able to be used as a legit laptop.
3 u/None 04 Jul 2021 02:56
I have the MBP M1 and the only time the fan comes on is during a benchmark. I can play WoW at pretty high settings and never hear the fan.