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points by GeekyBear 2 days ago | 0 comments

In a world with the chips themselves named things like:

Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 or Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.

Your distaste seems misplaced.

They're all bad, some are worse

We should have enough distaste for them all

A name like M5 Pro denotes the generation and the number of cores.

What does a name like Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 even mean?

You can just Google it. It's not a complex answer:

- Snapdragon 8 is the highest-end mobile SOC line, as opposed to midrange Snapdragon 7 and low-end Snapdragon 4.

- Elite means that the CPU core is Snapdragon Oryon, and not Arm Cortex off-the-shelf designs.

- Extreme is a trim/upgrade package that gives the GPU more power and performance headroom.

- Gen 6 tells you the generation of chip from that line.

You should refer to prior discussions on this topic if you're genuinely confused, or somehow think that Apple has a superior taxonomy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116504

> Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 or Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.

Don't even get me started on USB...