Competitive Snapdragon. Yes, this chip will use an ARM CPU, but that won’t stop it from moving Windows, and the truth is that the first performance figures we’ve seen They are perspective.

Before we look at these performance figures, let’s recall the configuration used by the Snapdragon X Elite. This SoC has a 12-core processor based on the Oryo architecturen, capable of operating at 4.3 GHz with two active cores or at 3.8 GHz with all active cores. Its GPU is a new generation Adreno compatible with all current APIs and able to offer performance 4.6 TFLOPs in FP32.

In the basic configuration, the TDP of this chip is 23 watts. With that consumption It is able to outperform a CPU as powerful as the Apple M2 Max and even the Intel Core i7-13700H and Ryzen 7 7840 HS, as we can see in the attached graph that shows the performance in Cinebench 2024.

Its graphics performance is also really good as its Adreno GPU beats the Radeon 780M and is placed very close to the 45-watt GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile, a specialized graphics solution. All this within the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme performance test, which is very useful for a simple comparison of different graphics solutions.

In games, we see that the Snapdragon X Elite achieves an excellent result in handling. At 1080p you get 53 FPS, so it’s very close to the Radeon 780M, which reaches 56 FPS. Here we can see that graphics performance in synthetic tests does not represent actual game performance, because the 45-watt GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile doubles the performance of the Snapdragon X Elite GPU.

With 1440p resolution Qualcomm chip It is capable of beating the Radeon 780M by two FPS. Taking an average balance of everything we’ve seen in terms of performance, both CPU and GPU, as well as at the TDP level, it’s clear that the Snapdragon it’s looking great and this could become a very serious rival for the big players in the sector.