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Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

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163 points wmf | 1 comments | 24 Sep 25 22:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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hmottestad ◴[25 Sep 25 05:22 UTC] No.45369546[source]▶
18 cores = 12 Prime and 6 Performance Cores

Not sure what a prime core is.

For comparison the M4 Pro can go as high as 10 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores.

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1. STKFLT ◴[25 Sep 25 14:00 UTC] No.45372723[source]▶
You can probably pretty easily just say Prime==Performance and Performance==Efficiency, but I think the "Prime" branding is kind of a carry over from Snapdragon mobile chips where they commonly use three tiers of core designs rather than the two. They still want to advertise the tier 2 cores as fast so T3 is efficiency, T2 is performance, T1 is Prime.

As an example, the Snapdragon 700-series had Prime, Gold, and Silver branding on it's cores.