{"id":131612,"date":"2021-12-01T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/qualcomms-new-pc-chips-are-good-but-they-still-cant-match-apples-m1"},"modified":"2021-12-01T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T07:22:17","slug":"qualcomms-new-pc-chips-are-good-but-they-still-cant-match-apples-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/qualcomms-new-pc-chips-are-good-but-they-still-cant-match-apples-m1","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm\u2019s new PC chips are good, but they still can\u2019t match Apple\u2019s M1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhESSZIXvCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lower-end Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 offers a more modest 60% jump in multi-core CPU performance, and 30% in single-core workloads. The GPU gets a meaningful 70% boost as well.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm says the 8cx Gen 3 is manufactured on the 5nm process node, which suggests that it uses Arm\u2019s Cortex-X1 cores or a modified Kryo 680 design \u2014 not the newer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/arm-cortex-x2-a710-a510-1225203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arm Cortex-X2<\/a>. In that respect, it seems similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/qualcomm-snapdragon-888-1179156\/\">Snapdragon 888<\/a>, its previous flagship mobile SoCs. Still, the decision to move away from 7nm should mean better performance per watt. But just how powerful is this new high-end chip?<\/p>\n<p>In terms of CPU performance, last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/5g-snapdragon-400-1152630\/\">Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2<\/a> went toe-to-toe with ultrabook-class chips such as the low-power, 15W variant of the Intel i5 processor. That was a fairly decent showing from Qualcomm, especially considering that the Snapdragon chip consumed half as much power at 7W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower-end Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 offers a more modest 60% jump in multi-core CPU performance, and 30% in single-core workloads. The GPU gets a meaningful 70% boost as well. Qualcomm says the 8cx Gen 3 is manufactured on the 5nm process node, which suggests that it uses Arm\u2019s Cortex-X1 cores or a modified Kryo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}