Discussion Qualcomm Snapdragon Thread

[gdansk]

Has anyone seen anyone testing Crimson Desert? Considering how it runs on Intel, that kinda made me wonder...

I downloaded 125GB to let you know it crashes to desktop on startup without any error dialog. Even with very strict emulation it crashes.

I am not surprised. Anything with anticheat and/or Denuvo is likely unrunnable.

 

[gdansk]

Some more WoA/xta/Prism and Adreno complaints:
Northgard seemed to be working but it locked up half way through a game. Couldn't tell if it was D3D11 wrapper or emulation that exploded. Tried again in OpenGL. All the colors were wrong in the menu and only 18-20 FPS in game (though the colors looked right here).
That game works even on MacOS.

I did finish a game of AOE2DE. Gaming battery life is bad but that might be expected given this only has a 70WHr battery. But it's bad even when at vsync 60Hz (estimated 3.5 hours in AOE2DE). Worse than Lunar Lake 226V/130V with also a 70WHr battery (same game I can get 6-7 hours easily).

So don't buy this for gaming. (I didn't! but it's fun to test)

 

[Tup3x]

Some more WoA/xta/Prism and Adreno complaints:
Northgard seemed to be working but it locked up half way through a game. Couldn't tell if it was D3D11 wrapper or emulation that exploded. Tried again in OpenGL. All the colors were wrong in the menu and only 18-20 FPS in game (though the colors looked right here).
That game works even on MacOS.

I did finish a game of AOE2DE. Gaming battery life is bad but that might be expected given this only has a 70WHr battery. But it's bad even when at vsync 60Hz (estimated 3.5 hours in AOE2DE). Worse than Lunar Lake 226V/130V with also a 70WHr battery (same game I can get 6-7 hours easily).

So don't buy this for gaming. (I didn't! but it's fun to test)

What power mode and what resolution did you use?

 

[poke01]

Some more WoA/xta/Prism and Adreno complaints:
Northgard seemed to be working but it locked up half way through a game. Couldn't tell if it was D3D11 wrapper or emulation that exploded. Tried again in OpenGL. All the colors were wrong in the menu and only 18-20 FPS in game (though the colors looked right here).
That game works even on MacOS.

I did finish a game of AOE2DE. Gaming battery life is bad but that might be expected given this only has a 70WHr battery. But it's bad even when at vsync 60Hz (estimated 3.5 hours in AOE2DE). Worse than Lunar Lake 226V/130V with also a 70WHr battery (same game I can get 6-7 hours easily).

So don't buy this for gaming. (I didn't! but it's fun to test)

not just for gaming. Do not buy this laptop for professional GPU or media engine related tasks.

It sucks for video editing, 3D rendering and any GPU acceleration led tasks.

 

[adroc_thurston]

not just for gaming. Do not buy this laptop for professional GPU or media engine related tasks.

It sucks for video editing, 3D rendering and any GPU acceleration led tasks.

You can just buy a Mac for that.

 

[gdansk]

What power mode and what resolution did you use?

For AOE2DE it was in whisper mode (~50W power limit) at native resolution (2880x1800).

It sucks for video editing, 3D rendering and any GPU acceleration led tasks.

Probably - but I haven't tested that.

 

[Tup3x]

For AOE2DE it was in whisper mode (~50W power limit) at native resolution (2880x1800).

Since that apparently doesn't throttle much on battery, makes sense.

 

[Covfefe]

Since that apparently doesn't throttle much on battery, makes sense.

I don't think throttling is a consideration in this case. 3.5 hours on a 70Whr battery is 20w. That's well below the 50w power limit.

 

[Tup3x]

I don't think throttling is a consideration in this case. 3.5 hours on a 70Whr battery is 20w. That's well below the 50w power limit.

It's not going to be running at 50W all the time. That 16" OLED screen and high resolution aren't helping.

 

[jdubs03]

From notebookcheck:

Power Consumption / Cinebench 2024 Multi Power Efficiency - external Monitor
Multicore score: 1761 Pts
Power Consumption: 79.2W


Multicore score: 2437 Pts
Power Consumption: 117.5W

The 18-Core M5 Pro scored 2347 Pts and drew 102W, so the efficiency is 23Pts/W. But still, Oryon v2 is impressive.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple and a problem for AMD & Intel

Notebookcheck review/analysis of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite & X2 Elite Extreme mobile ARM processors.

www.notebookcheck.net

Apple M5 Pro & M5 Max CPU Analysis - M5 Max is not much faster than the M4 Max

Notebookcheck analysis/review of the Apple M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs with the new 18-core CPU.

www.notebookcheck.net

 

[mvprod123]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044426126819508639

 

[gdansk]

David Huang mentions the laptop was AUD 4300 which even accounting for exchange rate seems really high. It was $1600 and now $1700 here in the US. So which is the outlier in pricing, AUD or USD?

 

[adroc_thurston]

David Huang mentions the laptop was AUD 4300 which even accounting for exchange rate seems really high. It was $1600 and now $1700 here in the US. So which is the outlier in pricing, AUD or USD?

Yanks are always the outlier as far as tech prices go.

 

[mvprod123]

 

[trivik12]

Amazing achievement. This is just the 2nd gen. Next one they should go for big GPU improvements.