I’m not sure i rate this particular article.
They seem to sort of hint at the importance of power and energy efficiency
But why did they then “ask about TDP” ? Surely they they need to know the actual input power(or energy) to achieve the benchmark, not TDP which is itself a wierd thing for chips that self regulate temperature by throttling.

I’m not inclined to pay attention to this journo.

Wow, how disappointing. One of the quotes say they got less than half as much performance as was promised, I’m hoping it’s a driver issue and not just outright scam marketing.

If this is true it will be devastating for Qualcomm … they hyped the new chips big time, and some huge manufacturers happily announced products with the new chip. So if this falls flat, a few influential players will not be happy at all…

Not to mention the rest of the tech media… they will happily sell the pitchforks and torches.

Both reported numbers that were nowhere close to what Qualcomm promised. How not close? Above 50% this time but one used the term “Celeron” to describe performance.

There is no harsher way to describe the performance of a CPU. Ouch.

I don’t think Qualcomm can’t outperform Apple at CPU game out of the blue. They were always trailing behind and Apple has now three generations of M CPUs behind. It’d be nice, though.

Apple arm chips still have good days ahead of it. It’s been years since the MacBook m1 was released, how can competition not catch up already ?