When announcing the first members of the Snapdragon X2 series, Qualcomm made a number of loud statements based on the results of internal measurements. Processor cores were up to 75%higher, while the power/watt quotient could improve up to 2.3 times the level measured in the previous generation. These are properly impressive data, but it was somewhat suspicious of the announcement why they did not extend the benefits of the IGPU section so clearly. Thanks to the German Computerbase staff, we get an answer now, as they have made a detailed test that will also address this topic.
The performance of the processor department has really been impressive, confirmed by the first independent tests, but the IGPU has not made much progress as many could count on. This also explains why the company did not state the raw performance of the IGPU department at the time of the announcement.
According to the test, Apple’s current best SOC unit, M4 Pro, was surprisingly behind the Quelomm X2 Elite Extreme, both below Cinebench 2024 and Geebhench 6.3: in these tests, the multi -threaded measurement ended with 1964 and 23693 points. The results of the single-fiber tests are not as clear, as while Cinebench 2024 had a 7%advantage of Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme over Apple M4 Pro SoC, Geekbench 6.5 had already proven to be better, 7%. NPU performance also shows a remarkable improvement, with the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme 80 Top-power unit 128%faster than the ASUS Zenbook S 14 Intel Core Ultra 9 288V NPU.
This ends the triumph, followed by the IGPU tests. During the 3dmark Steel Nomad Light Unlimited and 3DMark Solar Bay Unlimited tests, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme scored 5687 and 22946, which is well behind the Apple M4 pro. Although the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme was 37-40% faster than its closest rivals, such as the M4 SOC with a 10-core, 37-46% compared to M4 Pro. Of course, it would have been interesting to see what the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is doing against AMD Strix Point APu-Strix Halo is already playing in another league, understandable if it is not in the tests.
These are just synthetic tests, and it will be really interesting to see what Qualcomm’s new salvation is going on with games and other applications, as those tests will show the real power relations. ARM -based SOC units for the Windows on ARM platform are still still relying on the translation layer when most of the applications run, although the number of native apps also increases nicely.
Of course, it is definitely worth emphasizing that until the actual start, developers will have a lot of time to optimize performance, meaning that the numbers seen above may somewhat improve.
