Qualcomm Is Cheating On Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks - SemiAccurate
Qualcomm is cheating on the Snapdragon X Plus/Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press. SemiAccurate doesn’t use these words lightly but there is no denying what multiple sources are telling us.
Lets start out with some disclaimers, the most obvious being how much we are blurring out a lot of the details. We are doing this for several reasons, the main one is that we facilitated some questions between OEMs and Qualcomm engineers which may point to a source if we aren’t careful. Anonymity of our sources will always come first.
Second is the briefings or lack thereof. At the Hawaii conference last fall, Qualcomm basically dodged every technical question asked. Both SemiAccurate and many others were promised that before launch there would be deep technical briefings to answer these questions and more. Today is the launch. Qualcomm lied. At least they lied to us, we haven’t had the chance to talk to others wo got the same line but, well, we doubt they kept their word at all.
Then there were the actual ‘briefings’ for the X Pro SoC. To call them pathetic is giving them more than their due. The deck was 11 slides, three of which were empty/fluff, five ‘benchmark’ slides with woefully inadequate disclosure, and two infographic summary slides. The last was the slide below with the ‘deep technical’ stats, much of which we told you about last week. And more.
