Your NEW PC will be Irrelevant…

Current x86 processors have been ruling the computing landscape, but are looking like their progress is slowing down. It's been a LONNNNG time coming, but ARM Architecture for our PCs looks like it's finally getting around.

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We saw recently with Apple's M-series Silicon that ARM offers many improvements to them over the legacy x86 processors that we have been using for so long. However, Apple has had an easier time of making this transition than Windows, because MacOS can be vertically integrated. Where Windows has a lot more struggles, but it has been improving significantly and NOW we are seeing new ARM chips like the SnapDragon x Elite SOC that will be able to take advantage of it in just this year. Is ARM the future?

0:00- Are things actually getting faster?
2:53- Progress slowing down
3:40- Most exciting silicon of recent years
6:30- ARM the future?
7:34- x86 and why it may become irrelevant
12:03- ARM is OPEN
13:42- Efficiency
16:37- Competition with ARM
17:42- The SnapDragon X Elite chip is looking awesome for Windows
18:23- ARM's negatives
21:40- ARM has crazy potential

[vextakes]

My bad I misspoke, meant to say RISC-V is open-source not ARM and it seems to be easier to acquire a license compared to x86 because ARM doesn’t make their own chips (yet).

[Pouria_]

what do you mean, my pc is already irrelevant

[internetbestfriend]

RISC-V is royalty free... But ARM, unfortunately, is propriety. Both are RISC

[temperedglass]

Are you threatening me about my imaginary PC.

[larrythehedgehog]

Please be aware. Apple is already hitting the same wall that all the CISC chip makers are at. The wall's name is: the laws of physics. The M series has also jumped in wattage gen over gen for improvements.

[karathkasun]

Guess what? ARM is nearly as old as X86 and carries the same baggage.

All of these "hot takes" on RISC VS CISC are ignorant of the fact that everything is RISC under the hood with CISC front ends now, including both ARM and X86. ARM is just designed to run in a tighter power envelope and has been for decades. AMD chose the middle ground with Zen, and Intel bet the farm on huge FAST cores that eat power. It has nothing to do with the underlying architecture at this point.

[PlayingItWrong]

The AMD X3D processors are genuinely more efficent, just by virtue of their shortcoming removing heat, even outside of gaming they definetly have use cases.

[vstxp]

Dude, the reason why we are still on x86 is back-compatibility. Apple M-Series have a ton of issues that their x86 compatibility layer barely fixes. Microsoft is also trying to make Windows on ARM work with programs made/compiled for x86, but it barely works. We have a LONG way to go before we can shed x86 completely, don't let the headlines fool you.

[Carnage_Lot]

Your cat is drinking your water at 7:40 lol

[jredubr]

Dude, nvidia uses ARM, because it can’t use x86.

[ThisGuyDrives]

A PC is never irrelevant. They can become outdated, but never irrelevant. All depends on what games you want to play.

[guydude]

ARM fans have been saying this for years and nothing has come of it. ARM has more issues than this.

[BenjaminBrown-or]

I remember hearing about how RISC was the future and would make x86 obsolete in the very near future back when I was 12.

I'm 40 now.

[UltraVegito-GodKiller-]

ah yes Qualcomm the NVIDIA of Android..

Hope Mediatek breaks the ARM PC monopoly

[bogganalseryd]

clearly you havent heard that they faked benchmarks. they arent even half as fast as claimed

[ilovelimpfries]

When this kid said 1978 is sooo long ago and eligible for midlife crisis, I feel attacked.

[reD_Bon]

CISC vs RISC doesn't matter that much.
The name CISC was only coined after the introduction of the RISC concept.
The summary would be: CPU instructions do more things at once vs a CPU instruction does only one thing.

Also RISC-V is not the umbrella of all RISC processors, it's just one CPU architecture set which utilizes RISC principles like ARM. And RISC-V is royalty free, not like ARM.
If you, as a CPU producer, want to use ARM technology you have to either buy a base ARM design and then modify it to your liking, or do the Apple way and buy a License of the ARM instruction set.

[mythicalnewt]

You got one thing wrong, while RISC is royalty free ARM is proprietary. Please correct it.

[bengolko]

Minor distinction to be made, ARM is not open-source. Risc-V is the open source architecture but ARM is a licensed architecture from the ARM company. They are both RISC architectures but ARM is a discrete architecture licensed by Apple for their M-series of chips.

[kevinwood]

So happy with AM4. In 2017 I spent $1, 000ish on an R5 1600/B350/16GB/256GB/RX 580/700W rig. In 2022, I spent another $800 and now I'm running R7 7 years from the original build, and it's still considered a fairly good gaming PC.