If so, AMD made the choice of still having more CPU cores than, for example, Intel did with Lunar Lake. That SoC also has a big NPU.
That all being said, your point (or the question behind it) is well taken. The usefulness of spending the area on a large NPU rather than for a larger GPU and/or larger Caches (L2 and SLC) is still undetermined. In Smartphone SoCs, having a somewhat beefy NPU has shown some utility, but there they have concrete uses, such as image enhancements. In laptops, those tasks can be accomplished by the CPU or the GPU.
Some rumors claim AMD had to scrap increased cache on the iGPU due to Microsoft requirements for the NPU.
If so, AMD made the choice of still having more CPU cores than, for example, Intel did with Lunar Lake. That SoC also has a big NPU.
That all being said, your point (or the question behind it) is well taken. The usefulness of spending the area on a large NPU rather than for a larger GPU and/or larger Caches (L2 and SLC) is still undetermined. In Smartphone SoCs, having a somewhat beefy NPU has shown some utility, but there they have concrete uses, such as image enhancements. In laptops, those tasks can be accomplished by the CPU or the GPU.
Impressive, and Arrow Lake is apparently the same arch, but half the size? If so I will have to go with Strix Point still in a small form factor.
Why is there no test on arm's mali gpu?
Intel's Linux drivers for Lunar Lake are rather subpar. Does it affect microbenchmarking?
GPU-side benchmarks were run on Windows