Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Goes Toe-To-Toe Against Apple M3 In Benchmark
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Goes Toe-To-Toe Against Apple M3 In Benchmark
Remember the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge that was leaked last week? Turns out the Snapdragon X Elite processor that sits within the laptop has more information found on the online Geekbench 6 database. Naturally, comparisons with its nearest competitor, the Apple M3 SoC (in the Macbook Air 15-inch), have been made.
As reported by Wccftech, the comparison between the two ARM-powered processors mimics the nature of their smartphone-based counterparts – the current status quo goes that Apple leads in the single-core department, whereas the multi-core is where Qualcomm’s chips are good at. Here, the X Elite has a solid lead against the M3 in multi-core, but Apple takes the lead on the single-core instead.
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It’s worth noting that part of the reason for Apple’s advantage is thanks to its more advanced process node, as the company is almost always the exclusive first customer to get access to TSMC’s latest process nodes. In this case, the M3 is using a 3nm process, whereas the X Elite has to settle for 4nm, for now. As for why the X Elite managed to gain such a lead in multi-core, it’s down to the core count: the M3 has 8, and the X Elite has 12.
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In tests like these, power draw is an important metric as well. It’s unclear what kind of power envelope the X Elite was tested on, however previous records have pointed to 23W, and even an 80W run, which doesn’t necessarily sound good for a chip that’s designed with efficiency (over x86 chips in particular) as its biggest goal.
However, do take these tests with a reasonable amount of salt – as Geekbench 6 is hardly an accurate representation of the chip’s sustained performance. Still, given that information regarding the new chip and the associated laptops has began to surface, one can expect the launch to be pretty near in the future.
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