<story><title>AMD&apos;s Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/10/amds-strix-point-zen-5-hits-mobile/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arnaudsm</author><text>ARM got a lot of hype since the release of the M1, but most users only compared it to the terrible Intel MBPs. Ryzen mobile has been consistently close to Apple silicon perf&amp;#x2F;watt for 5 years. But got little press coverage.&lt;p&gt;Hype can be really decorrelated from real world performance.</text></item><item><author>sm_1024</author><text>IMO, the most interesting thing about this line is the battery life---within an hour of MBP3 and within 2 hours of Asus&amp;#x27;s Qualcomm. Making it comparable to ARM architectures.&lt;p&gt;Which is a little surprising because ARM is commonly believed to be much more power efficient than x86.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;amp;t=277&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;amp;t=277&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jsheard</author><text>Any efficiency comparison involving Apples chips also has to factor in that Tim Cook keeps showing up at TSMCs door with a freight container full of cash to buy out exclusive access to their bleeding edge silicon processes. ARM may be a factor but don&amp;#x27;t underestimate the power of having more money than God.&lt;p&gt;Case in point, Strix Point is built on TSMC 4nm while Apple is already using TSMCs second generation 3nm process.</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD&apos;s Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile</title><url>https://chipsandcheese.com/2024/08/10/amds-strix-point-zen-5-hits-mobile/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arnaudsm</author><text>ARM got a lot of hype since the release of the M1, but most users only compared it to the terrible Intel MBPs. Ryzen mobile has been consistently close to Apple silicon perf&amp;#x2F;watt for 5 years. But got little press coverage.&lt;p&gt;Hype can be really decorrelated from real world performance.</text></item><item><author>sm_1024</author><text>IMO, the most interesting thing about this line is the battery life---within an hour of MBP3 and within 2 hours of Asus&amp;#x27;s Qualcomm. Making it comparable to ARM architectures.&lt;p&gt;Which is a little surprising because ARM is commonly believed to be much more power efficient than x86.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;amp;t=277&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;Z8WKR0VHfJw?si=A7zbFY2lsDa8iVQN&amp;amp;t=277&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sm_1024</author><text>I have heard that part of the reason for little coverage of ryzen mobile CPUs is  their limited availability as AMD was focussing on using the fab capacity for server chips.</text></comment>