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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Just to add as we are discussing mainly ARM vs x86 now… that is just a small part of the whole device. Just look at the SD OLED vs LCD. They managed to have OLED screen that is significantly better than the LCD one while using less power on AVG which is a huge deal to battery life and it either allows you to compensate with more power to SOC to achieve better performance at the same battery life or take the saving and go with higher battery life… and that’s just screen.

    Then they optimized the PCB layout, PCB components, etc… to get both better cooling and efficiency.

    I think that what is currently holding them back is both the SOC available and the actual efficiency of given parts combined. Getting improvement in both areas at once will lead to a significant change but one or the other alone will not tip the scales towards significant upgrade.




  • Nothing yet surpassed Zen2 low power efficiency in the SD. And by low power I mean under 10W power/performance.

    New chips scale quite a bit better above 10W though.

    Also I’m not sure if that’s actually the HW limitation or just Valve tuning of the power behaviour. It’s possible they can throw in Zen5 and tune it to that efficiency level while getting significant performance uplift over Zen2 at the same power.

    Regarding GPU we will need much faster memory support to get any significant advantages even with RDNA4 as most iGPUs are starved for memory bandwidth anyways, not saying that RDNA4 wouldn’t be an improvement, just that it won’t be as big as a leap as it could be with faster memory.















  • Most of the time I can’t tell a difference but with orchestra / classical music I can.

    Also most of the time I listen to music when I’m in a factory with 75db-80db noise floor so it hardly matters how good headphones and source I’m listening to.

    It’s just at home where I can fully enjoy my flacs with HD 650… Not that I bother listening to them too often anyways.

    I’ll take good mp3 256kbps master over bad flac master any day though.