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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well in the article, it says

"Testing the chips in Geekbench 7, Signal65 found the X2 Elite Extreme to be "up to 53% faster" than Intel's chip and "up to 83% faster" than AMD's chip.

In Cinebench 2026, which is used to test multi-thread rendering performance, the X2 Elite Extreme was "up to 87% faster" than the Intel and AMD chips."

The Ai part is

" Qualcomm's specialized chip that runs AI locally almost hit 2x the AI performance compared to Intel, climbing to about 2.4x the performance of AMD's NPU in the Procyon AI Computer Vision test."

So the headline using up to 87% faster (in Cinebench) isn't that missleading imo. If they said 2x faster without saying Ai, I would have agreed. The only potential red flag is

"This report from Signal65 was commissioned by Qualcomm, but there's no reason for me to think that any of the numbers were fudged. Signal65 is independent and generally credible."

Geekbench... ARM chips tend to do extremely well there and then IRL they don't come anywhere close to those results anymore. I'm waiting for more independent reviews with other tests - and not just synthetic ones.

And that's fair. Everyone should. Not to mention ARM cpus real problem is compatibility with x86 applications in general so even if it is faster, it still won't be worth going into for most people. But your original statements were not correct. It's not just the Ai test that it wins in and even if you discount Geekbench, the headline was based on Cinebench which is a much more universal CPU test. But I do 100% agree that no one should be buying any products based on preliminary tests and to wait for full reviews before buying any product really.