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The thing that worries me the most is coming.

Jokingly, an Rabbit recently released the performance chart of the car machine version, which, frankly speaking, is the first "test" of the mainstream car machine chip performance. This is an rabbit car version of the opening of the public test nearly a month, the background includes dozens of cars after a large number of running scores obtained after the ranking.

(picture from an Rabbit) the top 10 car chips on the list are all very interesting. at present, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295, with a score of nearly 700,000, uses the storage combination of 16+128GB, which has the highest running score so far. The chip should be launched by Geely Galaxy's new pure electric flagship model E8, which is expected to go on sale later this year.

It is said that there are many manufacturers competing for the first Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295, using four-core Kyro 695Gold + four-core Kyro 695Sliver,GPU model for Adreno 690. it is the same as the third generation Snapdragon 8cx used in the Windows On ARM platform, and it is believed that it will soon replace 8155 to become the mainstream.

It is surprising that Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155, the most common flagship chip at this stage, ranks fifth. After all, it is still a bit embarrassing to rank as the most commonly used flagship chip by car companies.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8195, in second place, may be relatively rare, second only to Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295, carrying mainly electric cars from traditional car companies such as Cadillac LYRIQ and Buick E5. According to Qualcomm's understanding, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8195 is based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, which is much better than the 8155 born in Snapdragon 855, and the result of running points is also reflected.

(picture from Cadillac) We can also see many car chipsets with only code names from the list, namely RK3588 from Ruixin Micro. This is a relatively pure blood of the "domestic core", although the use of the public version of the core, but the running point strength is also in the top three on the list.

Take a closer look, Tesla's AMD chipset is not among them, if any, Xiao Tongmu tests its running branch will rank first.

Professional player Tesla is banned from the competition, isn't it? Car owners are expected to complain bitterly about the authorities, but Tesla's operating system is different from other electric cars and hasn't adapted yet. All Tesla car owners can also rest assured that the electric car giant such a big thing, Anbunny probability will not be ignored.

(picture from Tesla) of course, the interior of the car has a lot of space, and there is often a situation that "one is not enough for two to put together". This practice can also significantly improve the computing power of the car-computer system. this is the part of the current performance list of the Anhare machine version that has not been disclosed.

Xiaotong also noted that some of the new car-building forces have chosen the route of "sharing the computing power of mobile phones", borrowing the computing power of mobile phones to make up for the car-computer system. The question is, if the running score at this time is a car or a mobile phone?

An Rabbit released the list of car running scores, which probably means that the era of car running points is coming.

The performance score of the car engine gives manufacturers a new direction to "brag".

Before running points and games come out, we might as well take a look at how new energy car companies promote the performance of their cars.

Many official details pages understate the description of car chips, and it is hard to find more detailed explanations than "using XXXX chips to provide powerful computing power for AI, software and entertainment". When the performance of the car machine chip is no longer the focus, the manufacturer will even delete the description of the chip performance, leaving the sentence "very strong performance".

(picture from the ideal car) from the law, we can find that the car companies can not come up with any more intuitive means to promote the performance of the machine chip, and can only tell the consumer group from a relatively metaphysical point of view that "the machine performance of this car is very strong and can meet the needs of entertainment and AI." that's all, and the relevant introduction is not as rich as the chassis, battery, and car body.

In the era of electrification, the car has skillfully replaced the traditional fuel system (except refueling) through the three-electricity system, which has greatly improved the energy efficiency. In just a few years, new energy vehicles have achieved the catch-up of fuel vehicle technology, which is comparable to oil vehicles in terms of chassis, integration, handling, comfort and other dimensions, and gives birth to rich intelligent potential based on electrification. Huge batteries can also drive more on-board appliances.

(picture from ideal car) it is obvious that fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles are no longer on the same track, and the experience of a car cannot be summed up simply by the texture of driving. This is what electric cars should do, and then compete with fuel stations on the same stage, in my opinion, it is no different from "electric oil vehicles".

New energy vehicles should be more "confident". In addition to the texture of driving, they should also put high-level intelligent driving, AI, and entertainment richness on the table. Smart cars are also one of the criteria to judge whether they are good or bad.

The latter two have certain requirements for the car machine chip, the stronger the performance, the smoother the theoretical experience will be. However, fluency itself is a subjective feeling, and it is difficult to quantify it through data. As a result, consumers do not understand what the car manufacturers advertise is so powerful that it can only be publicized at the functional level, and the car machine chip can only be carried by a "flagship".

(picture from ideal car) how to give consumers a more intuitive understanding of what a "flagship chip" is, there has been no solution before, because no matter how powerful the performance of the car is, it is just watching videos, listening to songs and using navigation. The big deal is that AI processing speed is faster.

Some manufacturers in order to highlight the performance of the car, based on the Unreal game engine to create a set of car interface, so that its load is higher, the main is a gaudy.

However, when games and running points gradually invade the automobile field, the high-load scene belonging to the car machine is captured by the manufacturer. In the future, if you look at the performance of the car machine, you can see the running points of the car machine, or test the high-load games for a long time like a mobile phone.

The game is relatively simple, and the mainstream car systems are based on Android, which theoretically comes with its own game library or allows third-party applications to be installed, such as the game suite of the Tengli N8 or the "Real Racing 3" pre-installed on the Teng Teng N7. The problem is that many cars need Root permission to install App on their own, and there are very few open systems like BYD.

(the picture is from Tramway.) that is to say, at this stage, even the installation of software freely is a problem. Car companies need to take steps to install third-party software and promote the ecological improvement of in-car entertainment, and now it is only the "primary stage."

I'm sure it won't take long to wait, because automakers and car chip companies have finally found a way to promote the performance of cars.

The era of running points for the whole car has not yet come. Why do you want to run points on a car? An Rabbit believes that the intelligent cockpit of new energy vehicles is very similar to the situation of domestic mobile phones in the early years, with large central control screen, high-precision touch control + high resolution, narrow frame, and high-performance chips, which are indeed very similar to mobile phones.

Therefore, it is necessary to make a separate performance evaluation of the intelligent cockpit system which is different from the car itself.

(picture from Anbunny) New energy vehicles are gradually stepping into the field of digital products. To put it simply, this commodity is like a smartphone with a moving chassis.

In fact, most of the specification-level chips are born on the mobile platform of smartphones, and some of them will be used directly. As a result, the replacement of car-machine chips is generally not as fast as smartphones, and most models adopt the mainstream solution of "unified distribution" by chip manufacturers, and the hardware gap is not large at present.

However, automotive chips are different from smartphones. Mainstream platforms include not only MediaTek, Samsung, Qualcomm, but also more competitors such as Ruixin Micro, and there will be more choices of chips than mobile phones.

(picture from Xilai Motors) the phrase "using 8155 cars does not represent fluency" still agrees that new energy vehicles are defined by software, the lower limit can only be determined by hardware, and the maintenance and optimization of software is the key to raising the upper limit of experience. Cars always come to the point where, like smartphones, mainframe manufacturers cooperate deeply with chip suppliers to bridge the gap between software and hardware.

However, software adaptation optimization is an extremely painful process, car companies do not have much relevant software development experience during the transformation, either cooperate with mobile phone manufacturers, or directly "take" the software departments of mobile phone manufacturers to speed up intelligent development. We will not be able to see results in the short term, and we still need patience and support.

At least until the industry has finished educating users, car-machine running scores and games tend to be "meaningless to show off skills".

(picture from an Rabbit) if there are no more new features specific to the car scene, then Xiaotong believes that games and running points are the "vent" of machine performance, consumers do not understand, then use more real data and performance. In any case, in the end, consumers just want to know that the car they like is smooth enough, but under the concept of "comparison of goods", they want to know whose car is more powerful.

In short, it must be inevitable for car companies to release new cars in the future. I don't know if you like running points.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:dianchetong233, author: shopkeeper of Tea Governor

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