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gdansk said:
Zenbook A16 has arrived. Screen looks great. No notch. Ceraluminum might be a marketing name but it feels nice whatever it is. Bloatware and stickers. They never learn. Fan noise is tolerable in normal usage. In whisper mode I haven't heard it using the web. Maybe they finally did it. In performance mode it is comically loud, so I am avoiding that even for the tests here. Track pad isn't bad except the click mechanism but you can avoid that.

It wants a 130W charger. That sucks because everyone in my family uses Apple laptops so our homes are littered with their 100W chargers. It'll be weeks before I know typical battery life.

It really sucks in Firefox. About 1/2 the score of a 9950X3D in Speedometer 3.1. Does okay in Chromium-based browsers. ~40 compared to ~50 for 9950X3D. It is a laptop, however, and it feels responsive so far despite that.

GB6.7

ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA with a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme - X2E94100 - Qualcomm Oryon processor.
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GB6.2 (No SME)

ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA with a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme - X2E94100 - Qualcomm Oryon processor.
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GB5.5

ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA - Geekbench

Benchmark results for an ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA with a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme - X2E94100 - Qualcomm Oryon processor.
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Cinebench 2026
Normal performance mode
616 ST
5977 MT
9.71x

Benchlight 0.9.7 (WSL)
101.gcc: 11.05
102.xz: 3.66
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Nice. Can you use hwinfo to check power draw in ST results? Allegedly Qcomm added support for this, in this gen.
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CouncilorIrissa said:
Not bad. Not M5 (spaceship) territory, but quite a bit ahead of the Windows competition.
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My initial impressions keep getting better and better.
  1. Driver software for my Logitech mouse just worked.
  2. I'm compiling projects now and it is faster than any other laptop I've used that can run full Visual Studio. The fans didn't turn on in the time it took to build.
  3. Some old 32-bit only game I play works in emulation. I really did not expect that. It barely works on modern Windows x86.
  4. WSL just worked and installed aarch64 Linux.
The biggest negative impressions so far have all been Asus/Microsoft bloat and shenanigans. Those are outside of Qualcomm's control.

Geddagod said:
Nice. Can you use hwinfo to check power draw in ST results? Allegedly Qcomm added support for this, in this gen.
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I tried running the beta version. I'm not sure why if it's 1T it has two clusters active.
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poke01 said:
Does it go up 60 watts for the MT test
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Depends on the mode. Whisper mode reports ~50W. Standard mode ~75W. Performance mode ~100W.
I'm not sure how accurate this is. And my bet is that vendors can play stupid power limit games given these are Asus power modes.
 
gdansk said:
Depends on the mode. Whisper mode reports ~50W. Standard mode ~75W. Performance mode ~100W.
I'm not sure how accurate this is. And my bet is that vendors can play stupid power limit games given these are Asus power modes.
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You can measure at the wall. But yeah looks about right for a cpu with 18 cores on N3X.
 
gdansk said:
My initial impressions keep getting better and better.
  1. Driver software for my Logitech mouse just worked.
  2. I'm compiling projects now and it is faster than any other laptop I've used that can run full Visual Studio. The fans didn't turn on in the time it took to build.
  3. Some old 32-bit only game I play works in emulation. I really did not expect that. It barely works on modern Windows x86.
  4. WSL just worked and installed aarch64 Linux.
The biggest negative impressions so far have all been Asus/Microsoft bloat and shenanigans. Those are outside of Qualcomm's control.


I tried running the beta version. I'm not sure why if it's 1T it has two clusters active.
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Wow yeah, that's super weird. Are the other cores also boosting in the other clusters?
 
Geddagod said:
Wow yeah, that's super weird. Are the other cores also boosting in the other clusters?
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It looks like it is switching between 1T on each cluster, but rather quickly. If I switch to different performance modes it does that less. Maybe thermal management.
 
gdansk said:
My initial impressions keep getting better and better.
  1. Driver software for my Logitech mouse just worked.
  2. I'm compiling projects now and it is faster than any other laptop I've used that can run full Visual Studio. The fans didn't turn on in the time it took to build.
  3. Some old 32-bit only game I play works in emulation. I really did not expect that. It barely works on modern Windows x86.
  4. WSL just worked and installed aarch64 Linux.
The biggest negative impressions so far have all been Asus/Microsoft bloat and shenanigans. Those are outside of Qualcomm's control.


I tried running the beta version. I'm not sure why if it's 1T it has two clusters active.
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Any chance you feel like running some other benchmarks? Perhaps source-based benches that imitate SPEC subtests?
 
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