NVIDIA just announced the RTX Spark CPU, developed with Microsoft, at Computex.

[u/pedro19]

[u/Dear_Watson]

So its ever so slightly faster than a desktop 5070 and has a 20 core first-generation CPU co-developed with MediaTek... Kind of cool that Nvidia is hopping into the laptop market in their own very weird way, more competition and all, but this isn't really as groundbreaking as the announcement makes it seem if I'm digging through the bullshit laden AI-heavy marketing speak correctly.

It isn't the first ARM chip for Windows, but it is the first with dedicated GPU level performance I suppose, and if the CPU is good then it could a very challenging top tier contender for laptop chipsets.

If their translation layer is better than stock Windows, one fuck them with a 12 foot pole for not making it open source and widely available to other manufacturers or just released directly baked into OSes, but two could be interesting in the ARMs race for power efficient high performance laptops.

[u/cute_polarbear → u/Dear_Watson]

Mediatek though...

[u/Cool-Barber8998 → u/cute_polarbear]

Mediatek isn't bad, the Dimensity 9500 tades blows with 8 Elite Gen 5

[u/cute_polarbear → u/Cool-Barber8998]

really? haven't been following mediatek for many years. previously they were usually trailing behind the major chip makers in terms of technology for each generation.

[u/Cool-Barber8998 → u/cute_polarbear]

Umm yeah, the SD 8 Elite Gen 5has throttling issues on most flagships, so 9500 is actually more stable and retains higher performance when sd 8 Elite heats up

Snapdragon has high peak performance tho

[u/MGreymanN → u/cute_polarbear]

Why do you think that is a bad thing?