Nvidia CPU

[Nena Trinity]

Okay so the rumor floating around is that Nvidia might actually show off a consumer desktop & laptop CPU at computex, it will probably be ARM based so here is the billion dollar question is Windows and most of the software for Windows actually ready for ARM CPUs? Also even if the environment is compatible enough what about x86 emulation how much would a ARM desktop chip realistically be able to do here? First gen Ryzen tier or worse? I really wanna know what people here think.

[goatedpenguin]

5 minutes ago, Nena Trinity said:

Okay so the rumor floating around is that Nvidia might actually show off a consumer desktop & laptop CPU at computex, it will probably be ARM based so here is the billion dollar question is Windows and most of the software for Windows actually ready for ARM CPUs? Also even if the environment is compatible enough what about x86 emulation how much would a ARM desktop chip realistically be able to do here? First gen Ryzen tier or worse? I really wanna know what people here think.

Windows has made compatibilities layers for arm devices, and are developing arm apps after the snapdragon cpu release for laptops(packed with AI too). As for Cpus by nvidia that will take sometime before reaching to the consumer market. Even intel and AMD know that x86_64 is not the way to go and it is only a matter of time before ARM takes over. Emulation will be a performance hit but I am assuming more optimizations are coming up. If you wanna read more on the new laptop here is the model: Snapdragon x elite laptop

[Eigenvektor]

It's not like Nvidia is the first to market here. Windows for ARM has been out for a while already.

 

So you can easily judge its current state for yourself, no need to guess. Find some reviews for the recent snapdragon laptops.

 

Windows itself runs well enough and there is emulation for x86 (and x86_64 on Win 11). How well it runs primarily depends on how performant the ARM chip is.

[Blue4130]

4 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Find some reviews for the recent snapdragon laptops.

It's my understanding that there are no first hand reviews. Qualcomm didn't seed or allow review samples. They pulled a "trust me, bro" on this one.

[goatedpenguin]

1 minute ago, Blue4130 said:

It's my understanding that there are no first hand reviews. Qualcomm didn't seed or allow review samples. They pulled a "trust me, bro" on this one.

Not rlly...

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

It's my understanding that there are no first hand reviews. Qualcomm didn't seed or allow review samples. They pulled a "trust me, bro" on this one.

At some point someone will buy one in retail and review it, so it's only a matter of time. I'd simply hold off from buying one myself until that happens. A trust-me move when it comes to new hardware is never a good sign imho.

[8tg]

This isn’t new, nvidia has had ARM socs since 2008. It was really only a matter of time until we started seeing Tegra chips in more conventional consumer machines as opposed to chromebooks, tvs or the Nintendo switch.

 

Will they pull it off? Yeah probably 

windows isn’t the deciding factor here, the arm MacBooks proved that 

[goatedpenguin]

Honestly snapdragon might beat nvidia in terms of releasing their stuff first in the desktop consumer market

[Blue4130]

45 minutes ago, goatedpenguin said:

Not rlly...

How so? They are stopping reviews. No reviews until release date on June 18.

38 minutes ago, goatedpenguin said:

Honestly snapdragon might beat nvidia in terms of releasing their stuff first in the desktop consumer market

Well seeing as how snapdragon and partners have laptops ready to be released June 18, that it pretty much a given, isn't it? Unless Nvidia has some magic to get a product out in three weeks...

[Blue4130]

49 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

At some point someone will buy one in retail and review it, so it's only a matter of time. I'd simply hold off from buying one myself until that happens. A trust-me move when it comes to new hardware is never a good sign imho.

I agree 100%. A first gen product like this with no advance reviews? You need to be very brave or trusting to pre-order.

[Eigenvektor]

10 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

I agree 100%. A first gen product like this with no advance reviews? You need to be very brave or trusting to pre-order.

Yeah, I fell for that with the first Atom CPUs. While there were reviews, every reviewer seemed to "magically" agree that it didn't make sense to give you any comparison how much slower they were to regular CPUs.

 

Oh they are slower, but we're not going to tell your how much, it's not the same target audience, blah blah.