Snapdragon X2 Elite performance preview shows 49% multi-core gain vs Snapdragon X Elite and 35% slower single-core performance vs Apple M5

[Redaktion]

Hardware Canucks has tested the Snapdragon X2 Elite, and the resulting performance is quite impressive. Not only has Qualcomm reportedly managed to increase multi-core performane by quite a large margin, the Snapdragon X2 Elite is also much faster in gaming.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Snapdragon-X2-Elite-performance-preview-shows-49-multi-core-gain-vs-Snapdragon-X-Elite-and-35-slower-single-core-performance-vs-Apple-M5.1222667.0.html

[Peet]

If QUALCOMM continues on this trajectory and fixes the 1% lows, the Snapdragon X3 Elite' iGPU is going to be fast enough to be considered. Nice single-core speed improvement in X2 Elite.

[Wheetabix]

Two things:

a) this is being emulated through prism translation layer (might explain those 1% lows). so if a native aarch64 build were ever released for these games, expect better performance.

b) iirc, there was a Qcomm slide indicating that dgpu support would eventually be coming later. so you may not even have to wait for next gen x3 igpu improvements to see better results.