The Microsoft SQ1 is a custom version of the Snapdragon 8cx with 2x more GPU performance than an 8th gen Intel Core CPU

[Redaktion]

Microsoft has created a new ARM processor in collaboration with Qualcomm called the SQ1. The SQ1 is a redesigned Snapdragon 8cx with built-in LTE, 3 GHz max clock, a more powerful Adreno 685 GPU with 2.1 TFLOPS of performance, and 9 TFLOPS of AI performance. The features of the SQ1 processor will be exclusive to the Surface Pro X.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Microsoft-SQ1-is-a-custom-version-of-the-Snapdragon-8cx-with-2x-more-GPU-performance-than-an-8th-gen-Intel-Core-CPU.436786.0.html

[DavidC1]

The SQ1 processor also boasts of 3x more performance per watt compared to the 15W quad-core Intel Coffee Lake CPU found in the Surface Pro 6.

That's marketing speak for saying the GPU is 50% faster than the one in the 15W Whiskeylake(not Coffeelake because that's for 28W) chips.

They claimed the Icelake Surface Pro is 3x performance watt compared to Macbook Air, which is also graphics performance.

[S.Yu]

That's just operations per second, not floating point operations per second, for machine learning.

[Slaine]

When will notebook check be receiving their review surface pro x unit?