[klyrs]

I don't know of a good way to compare their real-valued gates to complex gates; it's probably a scaling factor due to encoding those gates as gadgets.

As for full connectivity; this is a benefit over gate-model: they can simulate fully-connected logical qubits; on the order of 2sqrt(Q/2), or 64, in their existing hardware.

As for the high bit count: sparse, structured problems can make very good use of the existing connectivity. Simulations of a cubic lattice are nearly competitive with modern classical hardware, for example. IIRC they can factor 16-bit numbers, too --these problems are "quasiplanar" and have relatively low connectivity requirements.

Full connectivity actually brings some huge engineering challenges; DWave's strategy is more about "this is what's actually possible today" and not "we're going to make universal quantum computers, don't ask us about error correction or crosstalks or calibration of large-scale microwave circuits"