This is certainly plausible for early hardware but I’d wait for more widespread confirmation before treating it as anything more than a fluke. It’s very easy to imagine that a new platform might have something like power management or driver issues which can be resolved without touching the hardware.
The post mentioned in article is full of details / photos:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyBook/comments/1dd7t0v/samsung_galaxy_book_edge_14_x_elite_initial/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyBook/comments/1dd7t0v/samsung...</a>
I'm under the impression that apple silicons dominance largely comes from TSMC. And that Qualcomm won't be able to match that. Am I wrong here?
Based on the original reddit thread discussion benchmarks are running with the cpu peaking at 2.5ghz when x elite should be able to go up to 4ghz. Seems like there me be some firmware issue in this model. What's more interesting is that the reviewer was able to play resident evil village at 60-100fps on battery using the x64 version of the game from steam.
Like any PC laptop, the results are going to vary wildly based on the manufacturer's thermal solution. You can't buy based on the CPU part number. You have to wait for reviews of specific machines and buy the one that's actually good.
Sensationalist article based on a reddit post which the OP already updated stating it has to do with a driver or chipset issue as the CPU did not go over 2.52GHz.
Bit of a clickbait headline<p>This is based on a Reddit report of a CPU that seems like it’s not boosting…ofc the score will be low<p>Yeah a cpu clocking 2.5 isn’t going to give you the same score you see at designed 4+. Unless it was limited that way due to thermals this is likely not a big deal in long run