AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU

I laughed when I saw that the Qualcomm “AI PC” is described as this in the ComfyUI docs:

"Avoid", "Nothing works", "Worthless for any AI use"

Didn't believe that anyone would be bridge-burning-happy enough to put this in their official docs, but you're not kidding: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/wiki/Which-GPU-sho...

In retrospect, the fact that Intel and AMD's stock prices both closed slightly up when Microsoft announced the Snapdragon X on Windows 11 was a dead giveaway that the major players knew behind the scenes that it was being released seriously under baked.