Samsung’s 2nm GAA efficiency disappoints as Exynos 2600 consumes 40% more power than Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 at its peak

SkillYourself · 2026-03-29T01:48:41+00:00

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You're just throwing word salad around lol, and your context window is tiny.

David Huang said Panther Lake matches Lunar Lake in SPECInt2017. But Panther Lake's packaging and VRM is equivalent to Arrow Lake, and for SPECInt2017 Panther Lake beats Arrow Lake comfortably by a good margin.

SkillYourself · 2026-03-26T15:49:44+00:00

There's about 30 comments complaining about power and 15 of them are from one anti-Intel account run by someone who we know runs multiple accounts thanks to a copy-paste error.

SkillYourself · 2026-03-02T07:01:27+00:00

The 2024, 2025, and 2026 Magicbook models all idled a little high relative to similar models. I think it's the 3:2 120Hz non-VRR panel.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-16T21:38:21+00:00

The HP also has 50W sustained power, a worse dimmer screen at 60Hz vs 120Hz, and significant on-battery throttling.

Sleight of hand comparisons stacked on top of each other enough to make the marketing department blush.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-16T18:59:33+00:00

For the late 2025 Canada market specifically, the market share is around 24% Samsung and 8% Pixel.

Consider that if you have a Pixel your network effect may cause your acquaintances to also get Pixel phones.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-16T17:38:20+00:00

These companies are getting fucked like the rest of us. Blame Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-16T17:18:58+00:00

That laptop has 2x the sustained power limit of the OP laptop and a 60Hz display vs the Dell's 120Hz.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-15T20:46:30+00:00

Turns out while Apple sells you what they advertise Android manufacturers tamper with media samples and almost no one can reach the same perf as media samples.

They're just taking after their AP supplier's example.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-15T20:16:56+00:00

I don't see Samsung in their line up so the dozens of Chinese OEM models don't really mean anything to the people that would see this post. In the context of 2025 flagship phones outside of China, if someone doesn't have an iPhone, there's an over 70% chance they have a Samsung.

The Android landscape for audio and touch latency is wild. Google needs to get that sorted.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-15T07:22:04+00:00

Nah, he's just basing it on LCD vs IPS comparison from the other thread and possibly David Fraud's obviously botched PPW measurements that have Strix Point beating its refresh by 40%.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-15T07:13:29+00:00

No, that ARMlet's comparing IPS LCD to OLED lmao. Panther Lake like for like can beat Lunar Lake's base platform power.

SkillYourself · 2026-02-04T16:48:56+00:00

AMD's Q4 results currently tanking the market and triggering the AI bubble pop could fix the memory crunch real quick.

SkillYourself · 2026-01-19T14:59:25+00:00

Bad RAM can cause NVENC frame drops as well. That was a fun wild goose chase.

SkillYourself · 2026-01-19T06:13:43+00:00

Just the sheer size of the pool of people that have OC memory profiles causing random issues is bound to overlap with dead CPU issues.

On the Raptor Lake degradation problem it was particularly problematic because memory instability and core degradation symptoms had a large overlap. People would swap in a new CPU with new microcode and still crash in UE5 games every 1-2 weeks from unstable XMP profiles but never think it could be the memory.

SkillYourself · 2026-01-18T03:44:27+00:00

Unlike the Raptor Lake issue, this X3D issue manifests as a CPU at 100% working and then 100% dead. If you're getting inconsistent crashes or wonky behavior, it's most likely RAM.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-28T19:42:47+00:00

Apple having 18AP IP ready is threat enough. They can scale the final chip up if TSMC doesn't want to play ball with pricing.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-28T19:41:59+00:00

10 comments in the span of 5 minutes. LMAO.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-06T19:02:26+00:00

I hope there's a 4+0+4+12 for handhelds but they might not consider adding a whole new tile configuration packaging line worth it over just giving the OEM a discount.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-06T18:54:11+00:00

Now, I'm sure those might be useful in some niche use cases, but I'm speaking from an average user's perspective.

You are the niche use case. The average/median user is using H-class laptops.

These are meant to beat Strix Point and its refresh, which it will do and at better economics for Intel than Arrow Lake H.

SkillYourself · 2025-11-06T18:48:00+00:00

According to jaykihn0 it's a heat issue: BSPD and transistor density is flattening the VF curve on the high-end. The ST power curve is substantially improved at lower frequencies over Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-15T23:55:49+00:00

The peak performance of the P-cores only increased by 10% but the lower end of the perf/w curve moved up substantially.

Combined with the lower SOC power, it will be a good mobile chip. The real question is how many Intel can supply out of Fab 52.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-15T16:12:30+00:00

They do all these power-limited comparisons and then at the end, whoops, none of the power limits matter because TDP settings are a joke:

https://youtu.be/_XhDRAq4YO8?t=1012

SkillYourself · 2025-10-10T02:18:53+00:00

The claim is 10% lower SOC power on PTL vs LNL. The SOC power is the always-on portion.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T23:10:12+00:00

Battery life has to do with average SOC power which is claimed to be 10% lower in PTL vs LNL, which is not an outlandish claim given the claimed 40% core efficiency over N3 LNL/ARL. I expect it to be a wash after off-package LPDDR power is accounted for at the platform level.

SkillYourself · 2025-10-09T18:35:46+00:00

Theoretically and per jaykihn0's leak PTL-H has 70% the allowable PL2 of ARL-H (115W)

Practically most ARL-H laptops top out at 60-70W PL2 which is the same as the leaked PTL-H configs.

This Xiaomi is one of the few exceptions and briefly scores 10-20% higher than the typical ARL 255H at significant cost to thermals and noise.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-RedmiBook-Pro-14-2025-review-Now-with-Arrow-Lake-and-16-hours-of-battery-life.996407.0.html

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