It’s kinda seeming like unless the a18 is a huge performance increase, Snapdragon will likely beat or match Apple’s A series in every metric with better power efficiency as well by next year
let’s ignore the fact that apple always improve their chips every year and fantasize that for some reason they’ve topped out at their current levels but at the same time Qualcomm will keep chugging forward and so clearly Apple is getting smoked next year
Apple has been having minor clock speed improvements with low single digit IPC increases every generation since A14, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at the trajectory of Qualcomm and Apple to determine what’ll happen if these trends don’t change. Unless A18 bucks that trend of minor improvement Qualcomm will be ahead, especially considering they’ll be using oryon based cores.
Of course they also do, but their gains slowing is what allowed these gaps to narrow so much, the MT lead is gone, the GPU lead is gone, and the single core gap hasn’t been smaller in many many years. And this was with them buying out the entire first run of 3nm. So it is fair to wonder if they ever make a big bound ahead again, or if we’re just at chip convergence, like the Zen moment where AMD and Intel have stuck pretty close on performance since. We’re used to Apple leading for the previous decade.
Apple’s had a couple weak years, while Qualcomm’s Oryon cores will be in phones the following year. It’s entirely possible, but how well Oryon performs especially on mobile is a question yet answered.
It’s kinda seeming like unless the a18 is a huge performance increase, Snapdragon will likely beat or match Apple’s A series in every metric with better power efficiency as well by next year
what a weird take
Apple has been having minor clock speed improvements with low single digit IPC increases every generation since A14, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at the trajectory of Qualcomm and Apple to determine what’ll happen if these trends don’t change. Unless A18 bucks that trend of minor improvement Qualcomm will be ahead, especially considering they’ll be using oryon based cores.
Of course they also do, but their gains slowing is what allowed these gaps to narrow so much, the MT lead is gone, the GPU lead is gone, and the single core gap hasn’t been smaller in many many years. And this was with them buying out the entire first run of 3nm. So it is fair to wonder if they ever make a big bound ahead again, or if we’re just at chip convergence, like the Zen moment where AMD and Intel have stuck pretty close on performance since. We’re used to Apple leading for the previous decade.
Apple’s had a couple weak years, while Qualcomm’s Oryon cores will be in phones the following year. It’s entirely possible, but how well Oryon performs especially on mobile is a question yet answered.