Thursday, June 13th 2024
Details on Qualcomm's Adreno X1 GPU Architecture Emerge
Qualcomm has provided new details about the Adreno X1 GPU integrated into their latest series of processors, Snapdragon X Elite/Plus. The Adreno X1 is the first custom-designed GPU from Qualcomm for Windows on ARM systems. The highest configuration of this GPU, known as the "X1-85," features "8" indicating the GPU level and "5" denoting the SKU.
The Adreno X1 boasts up to 6 shaders, 1536 FP32 ALUs, and can handle 96 texels per cycle. It delivers up to 4.6 TFLOPS of peak performance and processes 72 million pixels per second. It supports major graphics APIs, including DirectX 12.1 (Shader Model 6.7), DirectX 11, Vulkan 1.3, and OpenCL 3.0.
Qualcomm compared the Adreno X1-85 to Intel's Core Ultra 7 155H mobile processor with 8 Xe cores, claiming that the Adreno X1-85 matches or exceeds Intel GPU performance in many games at 1080p resolution. However, Qualcomm did not provide specific details about the game settings or test platform.
Additionally, Qualcomm introduced the "Adreno Control Panel," an app for game optimization and driver updates, which Qualcomm promises to update at least once a month.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops will be available from June 18, however, they can already be preordered.
Sources:
IThome, Videocardz
The Adreno X1 boasts up to 6 shaders, 1536 FP32 ALUs, and can handle 96 texels per cycle. It delivers up to 4.6 TFLOPS of peak performance and processes 72 million pixels per second. It supports major graphics APIs, including DirectX 12.1 (Shader Model 6.7), DirectX 11, Vulkan 1.3, and OpenCL 3.0.
Additionally, Qualcomm introduced the "Adreno Control Panel," an app for game optimization and driver updates, which Qualcomm promises to update at least once a month.
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www.anandtech.com/show/21445/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-architecture-deep-dive/2
It's not clear if the games tested are running in emulation mode or not, but I presume most are.
Also, I can't find a single review that lists the memory specs of the Acer Swift Go 14 that was used for the testing.
based their uArch off mobile PowerVR/S3 (common in early smart phones and ARM-mobile, IIRC)
I *really* miss PowerVR, in particular.
As an aside,
The irony might be palpable. Adreno, long-ago had relation to ATI Radeon.
Hence, the anagram R A D E O N <-> A D R E N O
They are going to need all of it.
Adreno X1 GPU Architecture: A More Familiar Face - The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1 (anandtech.com)
What I'm interested in is the entire real picture, they've been doing a slow drip of information for months with fluff pieces everywhere but no one has been able to verify anything independently. It's all "uhh seems great, very fast, much battery and cool" but no real performance comparisons, only claims from Qualcomm. GPU raw power is the least important part of that, the chip supports USB4 and has 8x pcie lanes available for a discrete gpu if that's your thing.
Now the deal is set to expire (allegedly at the end of this year) they come out swinging with this big thing, at least it's not priced out of this world like the rebadged SQ chips and Surface Pro X always were, but it's still going for quite a high price bracket without anything to back their claims of improvement. Sure a 1200€ snapdragon elite laptop will be fast and cool, so would a ryzen 8945hs or 8845hs laptop if anyone bothered to put one in something other than a gaming brick
But if it at least is efficient, I could let it pass.
I have no doubt Strix Point 9945HS will destroy this in all metrics including iGPU.
It looks like it could be a firmware problem, though.
"Before you grab your pitchfork and join the mob, there are multiple possible reasons for this disappointing performance. The most obvious is a hardware fluke. The CPU never boosted above 2.52 GHz in the Reddit tests. This is an obvious concern as the Elite X advertises boost clocks up to 4.0 GHz. The above X thread alleges that the Galaxy Book4 Edge physically limited the CPU speeds to keep cooling and battery performance maintainable, but this doesn't line up with other GeekBench scores for the Samsung laptop arriving today with some of the faster scores in the Copilot+ lineup."
But my torches are always lit /s
Also...what's with that graph? Why is it showing the 780m to be the worst while in reality it is faster than the Intel iGPU in actual games?
EDIT: It looks like some units are able to hit advertised clocks and are performing pretty close to Qualcomm's advertised scores