The performance of the four Snapdragon Xs in the wild
Thus, by consulting the Geekbench database, which allows you to compare the performances of a very wide variety of devices whether they are under Android, macOS, Windows or iOS and whatever the ARM or x86 processor platform, we have compiled the best results recorded over the last two days and added the best results that we ourselves have recorded on laptops passed through our hands at the Digital laboratory with the exception of the MacBook Pro 16 in M3 Pro.
Good news for Qualcomm, the results announced during the various press presentations have been held. The Snapdragon
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Finally, the Snapdragon Edge Pro 16. The bet is therefore held for Qualcomm’s Snapdragons.
Faced with the competition, the three versions of the Snapdragon X Elite do better than Intel’s Core Ultra 9 185H in the MateBook And that’s not all, the Snapdragon As for the Snapdragon
Facing the Apple M, the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100 and
What about autonomy and compatibility?
The Snapdragon However, these results do not indicate the consumption of said chips. We will therefore still have to wait for the complete tests to know if the Snapdragon X are as efficient as the ARM architecture is supposed to be.
But above all, and this is the most important point, Windows must be fully adapted to the ARM architecture of the Snapdragon ‘actual hour. What’s the point of having a high-performance processor if 30% or more of performance is lost during the translation of x86 instructions to ARM.
On this point, Windows has put all publishers in working order to offer software and applications in ARM version such as Google with Chrome or recently Slack from Salesforce. As a last resort, Microsoft has provided Prism for the Windows translation layer, a counterpart to Rosetta 2 on macOS.
AMD and Intel are obviously not remaining idle since the first will release its Ryzen AI 300 in mid-July and have already been announced with Zen5 cores up to 15% more efficient than the previous generation. While the second unveiled Lunar Lake announced as faster than Snapdragon in the pure calculation part and 50% more efficient in games than the previous generation Meteor Lake.