Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite tops the Apple M5 in new test video
The first laptops powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon
The video, released this weekend by Hardware Canucks, also includes a handful of gaming tests. These don’t really position the X2 Elite as a gaming processor, although the company claims that many games will run on the chip twice as fast as its predecessor, the Snapdragon X Elite.
The site says Asus has granted it permission to test pre-production implementations of a new Asus Vivobook and Zenbook laptop, running pre-production firmware and operating media. For this reason, Hardware Canucks was not allowed to run battery tests, he said, because a future firmware update would be released to optimize the X2 Elite’s performance on battery.
Qualcomm had allowed journalists to “test” the Snapdragon Still, CPU tests and even some graphics tests significantly outperformed the competition at the time.
The two laptops Hardware Canucks was allowed to test included a Snapdragon X2E-88-100, not the X2E-96-100 Elite Extreme at the top of the Snapdragon computing stack. That means performance was slightly lower than what September testing revealed: 160 on a single-threaded Cinebench 2024 test for the X2E-96-100, compared to the 146 Hardware Canucks scores recorded for the X2E-88-100. That’s still a little lower than the score of 200 recorded by the site for the Apple M5, but well above the score of 108 produced by the first generation X1 Elite.
But when real-world tests like Handbrake and Blender were used, the Snapdragon
However, in games (Cyberpunk: 2077 And Baldur’s Gate 3), the chip failed to achieve frame rates above 60fps in the 1200p Medium and 1200p Low settings, respectively, falling behind Intel’s “Panther Lake” chips and the M5.
Nonetheless, Qualcomm is setting the stage for another competitive chip offering. Battery life will be critical, and we don’t know the answer to that yet. However, watch the Hardware Canucks video for even more references. In the meantime, we will wait for our own test machines, Qualcomm.
