Discussion Qualcomm Snapdragon Thread

[CouncilorIrissa]

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the iGPU segmentation is disgusting here, the lowest end SKU just loses almost half of its frequency. wtf

 

[adroc_thurston]

the iGPU segmentation is disgusting here, the lowest end SKU just loses almost half of its frequency. wtf

I think they yoink'd the tits outta PMIC count.
That's why they bin an entire cluster out (to gut the voltage rails).

 

[mvprod123]

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SYCL support was already mentioned in one of their slides, now they have stated a timeline.

Blender first mentioned this when it presented support for the Vulkan backend and improvements to the performance of Adreno GPUs.

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"In the longer term (during 2026), the aim is to offer hardware‑accelerated ray tracing for Cycles on Snapdragon GPUs, making use of SYCL."

 

[poke01]

i gotta say the amount of laptop design wins for X2 is impressive

 

[regen1]

Blender first mentioned this when it presented support for the Vulkan backend and improvements to the performance of Adreno GPUs.

Blender for Windows on Arm — Blender Developers Blog

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code.blender.org

"In the longer term (during 2026), the aim is to offer hardware‑accelerated ray tracing for Cycles on Snapdragon GPUs, making use of SYCL."

Yeah, also after X2 Elite announcement last year there were some talks of it being done H1 2026, now they are specifying Q1.

 

[Doug S]

i gotta say the amount of laptop design wins for X2 is impressive

Didn't the original one have a lot of design wins, but despite that not a lot of sales?

 

[Thibsie]

Didn't the original one have a lot of design wins, but despite that not a lot of sales?

That’s what I remember.
Mmm how many OEMs (if any) are dependants on QC modem/wifi/bt chips ?

How can this influence willingness of OEMs to go with QC or at least on paper ?