Comment by llm_nerd
8 hours ago
The core they're talking about was released about two years ago. nvidia stuck it on their grace blackwell (e.g. DGX Spark) as basically a coordinator on the system.
Anyway, here it is in GB10 form-
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14078585
And here is a comparable M5 in a laptop-
https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-2025
M5 has about a 32% per core advantage, though the DGX obviously has a much richer power budget so they tossed in 10 high performance cores and 10 efficiency cores (versus the 4 performance and 6 efficiency in the latter). Given the 10/10 vs 4/6 core layouts I would expect the former to massively trounce the latter on multicore, while it only marginally does.
Samsung used the same X925 core in their Exynos 2500 that they use on a flip phone. Mediatek put it in a couple of their chips as well.
"Reaching desktop" is always such a weird criteria though. It's kind of a meaningless bar.
Afaict the "desktop" target is meaningless these days. Desktops aren't really a thing anymore in the general sense are they? Only folks I know still hanging on to desktop hardware are gamers and even those I see going by the wayside with external video cards becoming more reliable.
"Daily driver" is probably a better term, but everyone's daily usage patterns will vary. I could do my day job with a VT100 emulator on a phone for example.
The "desktop" market includes laptops but excludes servers, phones, tablets, etc.
There's a zillion office workers that have low cost mini PCs from the big OEMs on their desk. After all, all those off-lease mini PCs on eBay that are so beloved by home lab enthusiasts have to come from somewhere.
For whatever I don't really register those little hockey pucks (mac minis, NUCs, etc) the same way as the desktop tower PCs of old. A me problem for sure, but those mini device things vary _wildly_ in capabilities manufacturer to manufacturer, from full blown intel i9s to little more than headless phones running ChromeOS on an underpowered ARM. Desktops _used_ to be fairly standardized to one CPU arch, same order of magnitude RAM, ran the Windows du jour, etc. Today the landscape isn't so monotonous (and thats a good thing!)