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Title: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple and a problem for AMD & Intel
Post by: Redaktion on April 07, 2026, 16:00:06
Qualcomm's second generation of ARM processors for Windows has arrived and we compare the new Snapdragon X2 Elite & Elite Extreme with the competition from AMD, Apple as well as Intel.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X2-Elite-Extreme-Analysis-Benchmarks-Efficiency-Serious-rival-for-Apple-and-a-problem-for-AMD-Intel.1266974.0.html
Title: Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple
Post by: Astralquarks on April 08, 2026, 02:44:26
Was basically neck to neck with M5
Title: Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple
Post by: Good good on April 08, 2026, 09:16:53
Quote from: Astralquarks on April 08, 2026, 02:44:26Was basically neck to neck with M5
Except in Single-Core Performance & Efficiency, where the M5 is 20% better and this, where the M5 is 2.2 times better:
QuoteApple M5 10-Core
MacBook Air 15 M5   
12.8 Points per Watt

Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-94-100
Zenbook A16 UX3607   
5.83 Points per Watt
But there's this video youtube.com/watch?v=HKxIGgyeISM ("Apple's GPU Power Numbers Are Wrong — I Proved It") that shows that Apple's reporting may not be correct, as also the battery runtime doesn't last longer on the Air M5, but maybe it depends on what a battery test tests.

Quoteeven though the raw GPU performance is only on the level of the M5 GPU with 10 cores
Expected, because of the same bandwidth:
M5: 153.6 GB/s = 128-bit * 9600 MT/s / 1000 / 8.
X2 Elite: 152.4 GB/s = 128-bit * 9523 MT/s / 1000 / 8.
Title: Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple
Post by: Worgarthe on April 08, 2026, 10:59:18
Not just Elite, not just Extreme, but Elite Extreme 🥵 Unless others bring Ultra Elite Extreme Pro Max AI+ this one is clearly the best on the planet.

Silly names are not even funny at all anymore...
Title: Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple
Post by: Mattias on April 11, 2026, 21:52:36
Would be great to see Qualcomm have great support for Linux right out of the gate, have they learned anything from their dismal launch of the previous Snapdragon CPU release?

Title: Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple
Post by: SD Express on April 12, 2026, 00:18:07
One thing that's pretty neat on these things is apparently, they're among the first to support SD Express cards natively within this SoC.

To my knowledge none of the current Intel, AMD or Apple laptops support this.
Title: Re: Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Analysis, Benchmarks & Efficiency - Serious rival for Apple
Post by: Games still crashing? on April 13, 2026, 09:05:23
In your review of the X Elite predecessor, you say:
Quote from: notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite-Analysis-More-efficient-than-AMD-Intel-but-Apple-stays-ahead.850221.0.htmlHowever, there can also be crashes (often happened during gaming tests) or the apps simply won't launch at all.
Quote from: notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite-Analysis-More-efficient-than-AMD-Intel-but-Apple-stays-ahead.850221.0.htmland there can be compatibility issues, especially when you want to play games.
Is this still the case of those games, and others, crashing?
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