Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme has been compared to chips from Apple, AMD and Intel
By ForGeeks
German resource ComputeBase has tested the new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme processor on a reference notebook with 18 Oryon-3 cores, a couple of which can accelerate up to 5GHz. In a number of tests, the chip outperformed competing solutions from AMD, Intel and even Apple. In the Geekbench 6.5 benchmark, the new design scored a perfect 4,072 in the single-core test. That’s 7% more than the Apple M4 Pro, and well ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H (by about 36%) and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (about 44%). In multi-core mode, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme outperformed the Core Ultra 9 285H by 35%, and the Mac mini with the M4 Pro by 5%. The results of Cinebench 2024 were mixed: in the multi-threaded test, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme retained its lead, but in the single-core test, Apple’s M4 lineup took the lead, beating Qualcomm’s new product by about 7%. Nevertheless, Qualcomm came noticeably closer to Apple in terms of specific processing power. The neural processor deserves special attention: the new version of NPU provides a performance boost from 45 to 80 TOPS (INT8), which guarantees its unquestionable leadership in this segment, where the nearest competitors offer no more than 50 TOPS.
