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2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip (www.pcgamer.com)
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2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip::We've already reported on Qualcomm's new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where would those benefits be? Let's start with gaming on the M3 Mac - it's CPU bound in many games even though apple's compatibility later is actually good. And the GPU is a joke, even compared to the Intel dGPU offerings. Let's not start on encoding (besides iMovie), packing or compiling things. Or even actually rendering stuff...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Compatibility layers are comprehensive, but they're generally not performant. For me personally, I use a real computer that runs my daily workload, servers and games all at once on different virtual desktops, so a faster CPU will definitely be impactful.

It's not just about avoiding 100% CPU either. CPUs not being the bottleneck for performance sounds like a great problem to have