Performance numbers for the Snapdragon X Elite processor optimized for Windows 11 show that the Apple M3 chip may have some concerns. Qualcomm is catching up with its competitor.
Apple offers processors high performance with controlled energy consumption at the same time. The current M3s are also real racing monsters. No wonder Qualcommfamous for his Snapdragon, would also like to offer a chip of this type. The manufacturer approached us about this Microsoft to develop a powerful processor optimized for Windows 11: the Snapdragon X Elite. He promises a Record autonomy on laptops and of course betting on themartificial intelligence that would do it 100 times better than its competitors.
On the Geekbench benchmarks page we find results on a Qualcomm processor called ZH-WXXwhich happens to be that Snapdragon X Elite with number X1E80100. It is built into a computer with Windows 11 version 24H4 Insider Preview with 32GB RAM memory. The chip includes 12 cores in total8 on one side and 4 on the other, clocked with 4.01GHz By default. Performance is measured in Single processor and in Multi-core.
The performance of the Windows 11-optimized Snapdragon X Elite processor puts the Apple M3 to shame
At the time of publishing this article, there were 5 Snapdragon X Elite reviews on Geekbench. This is about the person who achieved the highest number of points. In the single-core area, i.e. for tasks that do not benefit from the presence of other cores, the Qualcomm processor prevails 2,574 points. So multi-core is the combined performance of all cores during a task that requires several of them 12,562 points. That's less than what we observed at the end of last year, but it was a test carried out under extremely optimized conditions, far from the reality of average users.
This means that the Snapdragon X Elite performs better than the Apple M1 and M2 chipswhich isn't surprising, but less than the Apple M3. On a 16-inch MacBook Pro the values are the latter 3,181 in single core And 15,620 in multicore. Qualcomm is not yet at the level of its competitor, but it is already very close. Especially since The test is carried out on a beta version of Windows 11, by definition more unstable and less well optimized than what is used by the majority of people. Therefore, real results should be available higher.