The Snapdragon X Elite performance benchmarks shared by Qualcomm were promising, so much so that they paint a very bright future for this new SoC from the San Diego company. These results were obtained through Qualcomm itself, which means that we had to take them with a grain of saltbecause they are not from an impartial source and you know how these things are.

The fact is, eventually worst fears confirmed. The first results obtained by the Snapdragon Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge achieved a Geekbench score of 6 1,829 in single thread and 11,379 in multiple threads.

If we compare with the results obtained by Qualcomm, the differences are huge because there was a score in a single thread 2,977 yy in multithreaded 15,086. We are talking about a difference of 62.77% in single thread and 32.58% in multithread. If you’re wondering what’s going on, the answer is very simple, everything seems to be caused by a frequency adjustment that is too aggressive and greatly reduces the working speed to maximize the battery.

Results obtained by Snapdragon it is under the iPhone 12 Mini in monowire, as it scores 2,141 points in the same test. Its SoC is the Apple A14, a chip that’s now four years old and faces the classic limitations that come with being integrated into a smartphone.

In unbiased tests performed on Snapdragon At the time, he emphasized that this SoC could reach 4GHz. Of course, we shouldn’t expect it to be able to keep this frequency stable for a long time, but it shouldn’t have any problems moving well above 3GHz.

We might think that this is an isolated case, but the truth is the results obtained in Geekbench 6 by other ultraportable devices equipped with Snapdragon between 1,700 and 1,800 pointswhich confirms that it is not something specific and limited only to Samsung equipment.

We’ll see what comes of it all. when the first in-depth analyzes of devices configured with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite appear, a promising chip that has raised very high expectations and that may not be able to fulfill them.