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Ok, I'm sorry, I haven't been reading CPU reviews for the past... 10 years. Can you explain why I would add 35% on top? What is "miles away" converted to percent difference in operations per second?

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I think the 35% on top is the expected improvements of the 888 compared to the 865.

On Geekbench, the top 865 is at 887 for single thread compared to 1585 for the A12. If we add 35% to the 865, the expected 888 score is ~1200, still quite behind the A12.

I see, got it. So, if we look at single core performance, I can see it is much less performant, but does not seem like more than a magnitude. It would also make it more efficient than Intel. Still, overall, would be very interesting to see a high performance Snapdragon ARM laptop!

Actually, Qualcomm noted the 888 is just 25% faster than the 865 in "overall performance". And that's Qualcomm's marketing number.

So Qualcomm didn't even compare the 888 to their latest 865+ CPU: it'll be less than 25%, but how much?

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888...

The 25% number is compared to the 865, not the 865+

Thanks for doing the math.

According to Anandtech, the 888 performance didn't live up to expectations.

The one big core is only 13% faster than the big core on the 865+.

>Compared to the Snapdragon 865+ which clocks in at 3.09GHz, this performance advantage should reduce to only 13%, which is less impressive.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888...

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