The Rise of Arm CPUs

[SpyderTracks]

This is well worth a watch.

Apple And Linux now both perform admirably on Arm. Windows still doesn’t because basically Microsoft are pretty poor these days at programming the emulation layer required to support legacy apps until devs can port them over

Also, there is strong sources saying that NVidia will be entering the desktop Arm space in the not too distant future, they’re already in the server space with CPU clusters and are in a lot of upcoming handhelds including the switch 2

And Apple are really gaining ground in the laptop space with M4 Mac Air (obviously leaving out gamers) which is extremely competitive at the price with full blown GPU, and with the M4 Mac Mini being found around £500, they’ve completely cornered the entry level space

They saw 16% growth in Mac sales which was around 7% greater than the rest of manufacturers

 

[Scott]

Anything low power is just a no contest IMO, x86 is nowhere near the level of ARM. It's similar to Intel vs AMD in the CPU market to me.

There's a place for everything still mind you, for me anyway. Slim line anything with any sort of focus on battery life needs to be on ARM.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Anything low power is just a no contest IMO, x86 is nowhere near the level of ARM. It's similar to Intel vs AMD in the CPU market to me.

There's a place for everything still mind you, for me anyway. Slim line anything with any sort of focus on battery life needs to be on ARM.

It will be interesting to see if Nvidia do penetrate the desktop market as that would be a significant threat to Apple and Qualcomm, I think Nvidia would unquedtionably be able to have far superior GPU and separately NPU performance on die.

Tie that in with ***hopefully*** SteamOS already being flawless on Arm and you’d have an extremely compelling gamer desktop

 

[sck451]

I'd expect Nvidia to target the mobile (i.e. laptop) market. That's surely where Arm's power efficiency will be most of an advantage...

 

[TonyCarter]

Whilst I may be a Mac fanboy, there's no way I'd recommend 'proper' gaming on an ARM Mac...as the 3DMark benchmarks show it to be around 10x slower than a RTX4090 - but that's based on an iOS version of the software as there's no desktop version available. In Geekbench GPU tests the Mac does fair better.