Qualcomm is being accused of dishonest on the benchmark performances of its new Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors made for laptops. Yes, this can be a little out of our jurisdiction, however we thought that you’d have an interest within the subject of benchmark dishonest because it has reared its head earlier than on the earth of smartphones. These chips may rival Apple’s M-series silicon in efficiency and will give Windows on Arm a shot within the arm.
According to SemiAccurate, Qualcomm is “dishonest” on the benchmark results for the Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus SoCs that the fabless chip designer is giving producers and the media. SemiAccurate cites two “main” producers and what it calls a “deep supply at Qualcomm” in its report. One of the primary points famous is that even high producers are unable to recreate Qualcomm’s benchmark results. The San Diego-based firm has but to answer requests for a remark, however we will definitely tack one on to this text if one is launched.
A report citing a deep supply at Qualcomm says the chip designer’s benchmark results for its Snapdragon X Elite/X Plus SoCs aren’t legit
During final October’s Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm acted a little bit squirrely through the briefing on the Snapdragon X Elite SoC. At MWC issues bought worse as the corporate put up slides exhibiting that the X Elite chip’s CPU outperformed these from Apple, AMD, and Intel with out displaying any knowledge that may confirm these claims. The benchmarks had been created utilizing a “black field” with the media not allowed to run or take a look at something. Qualcomm stated that it could give the media time to confirm this info earlier than the chips had been formally introduced. That befell right now and Qualcomm apparently did not maintain its phrase.
To make issues worse, when the producers obtained their preliminary samples, efficiency numbers had been “far sub-50%” than the figures claimed by Qualcomm. The aforementioned “deep supply” at Qualcomm advised SemiAccurate that the benchmarks had been cheats and that Qualcomm was conscious of it. Laptops utilizing the new chips will launch in June and Qualcomm will nonetheless not enable unbiased exams of the {hardware}.
If you are a long-time PhoneArena reader, you may recall that again in 2014 each HTC and Samsung admitted that their telephones, together with the HTC One (M8), artificially pumped up benchmark scores. Samsung stated on the time, “Samsung Galaxy Note 3 maximizes its CPU/GPU frequencies when operating options that demand substantial efficiency.”
