This will be great for Linux users, and Windows users won’t care at all, because Windows on ARM is an absolute shit show.
Until it’s revealed all the features on the chip need specialised closed-source drivers, and none of it will work very well until it gets an open source implementation in 5-10 years, and even then there will be limitations.
Well that would only be shooting themselves in the foot.
A lot of companies shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to Linux
Slap that bad boy in steam deck v2. If those numbers are all close to true it would be an amazing chip to put in the next version of steam deck. Much better battery life, world’s better graphics processing, snapdragon chips play nice with Linux, and you could get cell data plans on it for online on the go gaming if you wanted.
Yes it could be great but that would add another translation layer onto the stack since all the x86 machine code needs to be translated to ARM. I don’t know if this will actually be a performance gain then
According to Ars Technica this processor draws 50W to get those performance numbers. The entire Steam Deck doesn’t even use that much power.
