In late 2016, Microsoft and Qualcomm announced ‘Windows 10 on ARM‘ project and earlier this year, Qualcomm revealed that HP, Lenovo, and ASUS are already testing Windows 10 devices with Snapdragon 835 processor. We recently reported the specs of HP’s Windows 10 ARM device and today ASUS’ Windows 10 ARM device appeared on GeekBench.
The device with name “ASUS TP370QL” appeared on GeekBench and the benchmark has revealed the specs of ASUS’ Windows 10 device-powered by ARM chipset. The Windows 10 ARM device from ASUS comes with 4GB of RAM and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 processor, according to the benchmark results.
The device scored 3,174 points in multi-core benchmark test and 818 points in the single-core benchmark test. However, the benchmark only measures the efficiency of the emulation and not the actual power of the device.
Windows 10 devices with the ARM-based processor are inching closer to a retail near you and recently Pete Bernard, group program manager for Windows expressed his excitement about the Windows 10 on ARM project. He revealed Windows 10 ARM devices will offer all-day long battery life and the results were also confirmed by Qualcomm.
“The PC space and the phone space have been sort of in parallel universes for a couple of decades… what two better companies to bring those worlds together than Microsoft and Qualcomm?” he said. While Windows 10 on ARM project sounds great, it’s difficult to forecast how sales will evolve after the first devices hit the market.
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Arrr... Emulation takes a big hit on performance, slower than Intel's Atom. Also on Geekbench4, HPE's device even slower with single core of 745 and multicore of 2987. At this rate, Windows 10 on ARM laptops may end up like a glorified Windows phone in laptop size device.
Well, it depends on the numbers one uses. For example, the Geekbench score of the Windows on ARM device from HP about a week ago posted a score of 1066 and 3631; which is faster than the Atom Z8750 found in the Portable Gaming Device, the GPD Pocket which that CPU has a score of 1106 and 3082.
And Geekbench only tests the CPU. I'd bet the GPU in the SD 835 is more powerful than the one in the Atom Z8750.
We'll see how this works out, but we shouldn't have to wait much longer.