Qualcomm's CEO on AI performance in laptops: 'People talk about TOPS but they should be talking watts'

chips have plenty of AI performance, up to 45 TOPs from its NPU. But he also pointed out that while talking about"industry-leading performance" is all well and good, people should also be talking about how much power such chips are using.

Amon then compared the NPU in Qualcomm's Snapdragon X to those made by AMD and Intel, claiming a performance-per-watt 2.6 times better than AMD and 5.4 better than Intel'schips. Those are some pretty bold claims but as there are no independent reviews of Snapdragon processors yet, they cannot be verified.

And it's not just about heat, even though Amon went on to point out a Snapdragon-powered laptop running 20 degrees Celsius cooler in an AI task than an equivalent laptop using its GPU. Getting more performance per unit of energy means you could turn things down a notch, to use even less power, and get a handy boost to a laptop's battery life.compared to the Intel Meteor Lake version's 18 hours, running a constant video stream.

If Qualcomm can really deliver with its Snapdragon X range, then we could finally see some proper competition in the CPU market, especially when it comes to having low-power, high-performance chips. However, I suspect the TOPs war isn't going anywhere, just yet.

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