Sophia Windsor
[ Gearbest Technology News]Recently, according to foreign media reports, ASUS directly compared the product page of its new notebook Zenbook A16 equipped with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with Apple's MacBook Pro with M5 chip, claiming that the former's frame rate in the game “Diablo IV” is 1.31 times that of the latter.
However, this “dazzling” data was quickly questioned. The crux of the problem is that “Diablo IV” does not have a native macOS version, and can only be run on Mac through an emulation compatibility layer like CrossOver. As we all know, simulation running will inevitably bring performance losses. Therefore, comparing the frame rate of a game running natively with another game running through the emulation layer is considered to be unable to fairly reflect the real graphics performance of the chip. Asus's move is suspected of “win without power”.
In addition to improper game testing methods, Asus also got the technical concepts wrong. The report also notes that Asus appears to be conflating “unified memory bandwidth” with data transfer speeds. According to Gearbest, unified memory bandwidth refers to the read and write speed of the shared memory pool by the CPU, GPU and other components in the SoC. It is a theoretical maximum value. In its promotion, ASUS mistakenly compared it to data transfer rate and inferred that the Snapdragon platform has significant advantages, which exposed its lack of understanding of the core concepts of Apple's chip architecture.
The report further pointed out that even if a fair comparison was to be made, Asus should choose Apple's M5 Pro chip as its opponent. According to Geekbench 6 scores, the “mid-range” M5 itself is only slightly slower than the top-tier M5 Max, which means it actually surpasses the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme. Therefore, the media believes that ASUS deliberately chose the basic model M5 for comparison, which is suspected of evading the important and taking the light.
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