After years of waiting, Qualcomm is finally sharing architectural details on the Adreno GPU powering the Snapdragon X-Elite SOC.
Adreno X1 GPU Architecture Deep Dive at Anandtech
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DegustatoR
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Maxwell level features. That's 10 years ago by modern standards. Kinda meh honestly.
The Snapdragon X Elite’s Adreno iGPU
Qualcomm is no stranger to integrated graphics. Their Adreno GPU line has served through many generations of Snapdragon cell phone SoCs. But Qualcomm was never content to stay within the cell phone…
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Not even half way through the X1 article from Chips and. Well they're going to have quite the pile of work to do for catching up to Intel Alchemist. And that's a good reference as Intel Battlemage is mostly fixing all the bottleneck issues in real games rather than theoretical performance.
I.E. don't expect Qualcomm to be competitive until 2026 or later more likely.
I.E. don't expect Qualcomm to be competitive until 2026 or later more likely.
Not really surprising given their mobile focus where their priorities are power and area, and to a certain extent performance. The competition, i.e. essentially ARM, hasn't really been doing much better and there wasn't really a necessity for Qualcomm to do more either. However Qualcomm really should have started to plan for more advanced GPUs when they started going down the WoA road with the Nuvia acquisition. They will need to improve by leaps and bounds if they want to catch up to even Intel let alone AMD or Nvidia.
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