WEBVTT 00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:09.719 yes I'm free gone are my sponsor 00:00:07.439 --> 00:00:16.320 obligations to Qualcomm about their new Snapdragon X Elite chips I can say 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:20.800 everything I want and guys following our 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:24.640 lab running their most rigorous tests ho 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:27.199 what I want to say is damn these 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:31.920 processors are really good we got our hands on two of the machines that are 00:00:29.119 --> 00:00:37.320 supposed to de thrown AMD and Intel with performance and efficiency that is 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:38.920 unheard of in a Windows laptop and while 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:43.719 they might not live up to every single one of qualcomm's very bold claims 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:49.640 there's no denying both the sheer efficiency and the shocking day one 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:54.520 completeness of the entire package kind of like this complete intro now that 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:57.680 I've done the segue to our sponsor Odo running a business is difficult 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:01.719 especially if you're jumping from app to app just to complete one transaction 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:06.000 with odu's all-in-one software you can save both time and money by streamlining 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.680 your processes click the link below to learn more let's kick this off with a 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:14.920 fun little anecdote that qualcomm's lawyers cut from our sponsored video for 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:16.920 some reason nearly 12 years ago I had my 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:22.040 first hands-on experience with Windows on ARM it could browse the web with 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:28.159 Internet Explorer navigate with Bing Maps and even play video to say we've 00:01:26.119 --> 00:01:32.520 come a long way would be a gross understatement you were looking at 00:01:29.880 --> 00:01:37.680 balers Gate 3 running on an AMD powered system and on a Qualcomm system and 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:42.799 shockingly the results are nearly identical so of course the first big 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:46.560 story here is performance the conventional wisdom about ARM-based 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:51.360 processors is that they are extremely power efficient but that they fall 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:56.479 behind x86 chips when it comes to Raw grunt well a few years ago that all fell 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:00.759 apart when a little known fruit company out of copertino launched a processor 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:06.240 that made even hardcore Windows users here in our office consider making the 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:07.880 switch it was a huge blow to Microsoft 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:13.520 and their Partners who were caught with absolutely zero response to the Wombo 00:02:10.640 --> 00:02:20.040 Combo of class leading performance and unheard of battery life that is until 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:22.840 now cuz Windows just had its M moment 00:02:20.040 --> 00:02:28.400 but no really like literally the man in charge of Apple's a architecture and 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:30.720 presumably much of M was Gerard Williams 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:35.480 and after the fun design Des phase of the M processors was over Gerard and a 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:40.120 couple of others left to form a company called nuvia to make their own ARM 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:47.040 server processors which was a pretty good idea but then Qualcomm showed up 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:49.840 and offered them a cool 1.4 billion to 00:02:47.040 --> 00:02:53.640 Pivot and build a mobile chip and a couple of years later why don't we let 00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:59.599 the battery life results tell you how that went our ASUS Vivo book S15 lasted 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:05.680 over 14 hours away from the wall with our HP Omni book X able to crack 15 00:03:02.959 --> 00:03:08.920 hours now you might be gearing up to get very mad about how that is absolutely 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.159 nowhere near the numbers that Qualcomm advertised but you've got to remember 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:19.000 that's in their tests and this is in ours and for context a MacBook Pro M3 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:23.799 that we bought just this week with zero battery degradation managed only 12 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:28.280 hours and 30 minutes in our test with the rest of our laptops getting left in 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:33.120 the dust which brings us to a big question how much a performance hit are 00:03:30.799 --> 00:03:37.959 you willing to accept to get that kind of battery life it's not like Windows on 00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:40.319 ARM is new and there's a reason that it 00:03:37.959 --> 00:03:45.319 never got adopted well what if I told you that things are different now and 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:48.080 the performance hit is virtually zero 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:53.360 along with our MacBook Pro M3 we also tested a more price comparable MacBook 00:03:50.200 --> 00:03:55.319 Air M2 and then representing x86 we've 00:03:53.360 --> 00:04:00.120 got an ASUS Zenbook with an Intel Core Ultra 7 and we've got a framework 13 00:03:58.159 --> 00:04:05.760 investment in framework disclosure with an AMD ryzen 7 all of them linked down 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:08.920 below now we do wish that we had a more 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:11.159 current ryzen 8000 chip but those are 00:04:08.920 --> 00:04:15.319 basically the same thing as ryzen 7000 but with some more AI bolted on but then 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:19.000 not enough AI to meet the minimum specs of Microsoft's co-pilot plus program so 00:04:17.560 --> 00:04:23.960 we think from a performance and battery life standpoint using 7,000 series here 00:04:21.239 --> 00:04:27.840 is fine in multicore workloads running an application natively the Snapdragon X 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:32.880 Elite was able to beat literally everything we put it up against even 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:37.440 Apple's M3 it's not a completely clean win I mean the Snapdragon chips have 12 00:04:35.280 --> 00:04:41.199 CPU cores in them versus just the eight in Apple's M3 so that's going to be an 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:45.560 obvious advantage in multi-threaded benchmarks and when we look at single 00:04:43.320 --> 00:04:50.680 core performance apple is actually still in the lead with Qualcomm barely besting 00:04:47.880 --> 00:04:55.080 Intel and AMD but you've got to note that it's possible Qualcomm still has 00:04:52.639 --> 00:05:00.080 more in the single core tank currently we've only got laptops with the X Elite 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:04.440 x1e 78- 100 chip going to hold back ranting 00:05:02.280 --> 00:05:08.080 about how horrible that naming scheme is for now but the important thing to take 00:05:06.280 --> 00:05:13.039 away from here is that this is the slowest variant of the ex Elite chip 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:18.639 which entirely lacks dual core boosting and has the lowest multi-core speed so 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:23.199 instead of being stuck at 3.4 GHz the faster ex Elite could go to 4.2 which 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:27.560 presumably would perform a fair bit better with that said it's currently 00:05:25.479 --> 00:05:31.240 very difficult to get reliable clock speed and power info from these chips so 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:34.720 we just got to kind of guess what exactly is going on under the hood what 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:38.880 we do know though is that we have multiple performance profiles on the 00:05:36.479 --> 00:05:44.440 ASUS viab book S15 and we tested everything at both 35 watts and 50 Watts 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:48.840 with multicore performance and cinch increasing by 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:51.240 177% for that 43% increase in power 00:05:48.840 --> 00:05:56.440 meaning that although more power does mean they can go more faster there are 00:05:53.520 --> 00:06:01.240 certainly diminishing returns after 35 Watts but of course this is workload 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:05.319 dependent and that's why handbrake is so interesting in this Benchmark the 00:06:03.319 --> 00:06:12.120 Snapdragon X Elite once again comes out on top in both x264 and av1 encoding 00:06:09.599 --> 00:06:16.599 which is great but doesn't paint the whole picture for that we need to take 00:06:14.599 --> 00:06:23.880 advantage of the fact that handbrake is available in both ARM native and x86 64 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:30.440 versions this allows us to look at the performance hit from emulating a more 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:35.400 traditional laptop architecture and ooh 00:06:30.440 --> 00:06:37.800 40% in both x264 and av1 that is a lot 00:06:35.400 --> 00:06:43.199 more than the 10% figure that qualcom was throwing around and the same goes 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:48.680 for blender where x86-64 emulation caused a 26% hit to Performance with 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:52.440 that said though even with that performance penalty the Snapdragon X 00:06:50.440 --> 00:06:56.319 Elite was still able to hang with the competition while leading the way when 00:06:54.800 --> 00:07:00.440 we were running it natively unfortunately that's kind of the end of 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:04.240 our productivity benchmark not because there aren't plenty of other pieces of 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:11.520 software that ran but because getting them to run across all of our platforms 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:13.560 under test in a repeatable manner was 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:18.520 kind of difficult to say the least with that said in general our experience with 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:24.319 qualcomm's x86 emulation has been largely okay I hate using this F word 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:26.599 but has been largely Flawless the 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:31.840 occasional installer would get mad but once installed we had almost no problems 00:07:28.960 --> 00:07:36.280 running even some kind of unexpected and heavy programs like solid works there 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:41.400 are two situations though where you can get caught out if an application 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:46.800 requires avx2 support it simply won't open or if a game has kernel level 00:07:44.159 --> 00:07:52.319 anti-che which brings us perfectly then to gaming now the raw performance of the 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:59.560 Snapdragon chips very impressive rivaling both AMD and Intel's integrated 00:07:55.520 --> 00:08:02.080 Graphics when it works ah yes that's the 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:07.199 caveat because sometimes he know work he's so good things do seem very early 00:08:05.159 --> 00:08:11.879 days with some games running wonderfully and some being a bit janky with others 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:17.759 just not launching at all because for whatever reason qualcomm's igpu shows up 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:19.319 as having no vram that's a strange one 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:25.000 one thing that's promising though is that there doesn't seem to be a performance penalty going from direct 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:30.039 X11 to direct X12 something that's been a huge thorn in Intel side with the 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:34.519 development of their Arc Alchemist gpus now given that Intel has spent the last 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:38.479 2 years getting their driver situation somewhat figured out for Arc it's 00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:44.560 probably going to be quite some time before we can recommend a Snapdragon X 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:46.480 Elite chip for gaming but if I get my 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:50.399 way the end goal here will be to have a proper dedicated GPU in these things 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:57.360 anyway so that we can have our battery life cake and also eat our gaming pie 00:08:54.560 --> 00:09:02.399 finally let's talk about AI Microsoft Qualcomm even your nan realist L won't 00:09:00.079 --> 00:09:06.880 shut up lately about how AI is going to revolutionize how you use your computer 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:11.720 but after a week of playing with these machines 00:09:08.839 --> 00:09:17.480 this is the number of times that we used AI outside of explicitly testing it for 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:20.360 this video the auto presence detection 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:24.079 legitimately kind of cool but can also end up being a bit distracting so we 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.760 ended up disabling it the paint co-creator probably isn't going to be 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:34.079 much fun if you're older than about 10 and the we were most excited for live 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:38.560 captions with translation didn't really live up to our expectations in our 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:43.880 testing it did a passable enough job going from Mandarin to English but it 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:46.279 completely failed Cantonese French and 00:09:43.880 --> 00:09:51.800 Hebrew so you might just want to stick to a good old Google translate at least 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:56.800 for the time being also Microsoft's controversial recall feature is 00:09:54.240 --> 00:10:00.959 completely absent at this point which is probably great because Microsoft clearly 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:04.880 has a lot of trust to build with the community before they're going to allow 00:10:02.839 --> 00:10:08.240 them to screenshot and key log everything they do on their computers 00:10:06.680 --> 00:10:12.040 the good news is that the benefits of this platform are about more than just 00:10:10.160 --> 00:10:16.920 co-pilot plus and one that I don't think enough people are talking about is the 00:10:14.079 --> 00:10:22.360 image quality advantage of the webcams on Snapdragon X Elite laptops this isn't 00:10:19.800 --> 00:10:27.399 just down to laptop manufacturers using crappy webcams in their AMD and Intel 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:32.640 designs though it's because qualcomm's s so includes a dedicated ated image 00:10:29.959 --> 00:10:37.279 signal processor that's built right in that conveniently allows laptop 00:10:35.079 --> 00:10:43.240 manufacturers to use much better smartphone targeted cameras that's why 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:46.399 it looks so much better overall though 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:48.680 AI aside guys this is an incredibly 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.920 strong start for Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors we didn't get to test 00:10:50.680 --> 00:10:57.320 everything so hit like if you guys want to see Alex and I switched to these 00:10:54.519 --> 00:11:01.680 laptops full-time for a month yeah a month but after our initial test the 00:10:59.760 --> 00:11:06.760 performance is good enough and the battery life makes every other processor 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:11.320 company blush not only that but there's a shocking lack of Jank for our first 00:11:09.079 --> 00:11:16.560 gen product and with design wins from nearly every Windows laptop maker and 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:22.120 not just yeah we shoved it in this weird skew we know nobody's going to buy like 00:11:18.760 --> 00:11:23.959 really good clean designs Qualcomm 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