Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon X Elite CPU PC Benchmarks: Oryon Core Faster & Efficient Than Intel 13th Gen & Apple M2 Max, GPU Faster Than AMD RDNA 3

25.10.2023 - 02:59 / wccftech.com

Qualcomm has finally unveiled the full details & benchmarks of its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite CPU for upcoming Windows PCs which will tackle Apple, Intel, and AMD.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite CPU is designed purely for the Windows PC market where it will be competing against Intel & AMD while also tackling Apple's laptop portfolio based on their Arm chip architectures. Qualcomm is claiming some big performance and efficiency numbers for Oryon and the resultant Snapdragon X Elite chips so let's get on with the details.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite "Oryon" CPU Specifications

For X Elite, Qualcomm has a brand new core known as Oryon which is based on the TSMC 4nm node and features a total of 12 cores that can operate at up to 4.3 GHz (1-core and 2-core) or 3.8 GHz (All-Core) boost frequencies. These cores are arranged in clusters of four and three clusters are used for the X Elite chips with a total of 42 MB cache.

The GPU is a Qualcomm Adreno chip rated at up to 4.6 TFLOPs and there's also a Qualcomm Hexagon AI accelerator which offers 75 TOPs of performance as a Micro nPU. Other specs include support for up to 64 GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD, the use of the latest Snapdragon X65 5G modem with WIFI7 and BT 5.4 offered by the FastConnect 7800 controller.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite "Oryon" CPU Performance

In terms of performance, Qualcomm shared a lot of figures starting off with the single-threaded numbers within Geekbench 6. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite delivers a single core score of 3227 points which is 14% faster than the Apple M2 Max (2841 points), while consuming 30% less power. The Snapdragon X Elite CPU also ends up faster than the Intel Core i9-13980HX, leading it with a smaller 1% gain (3192 points) but doing so by consuming 70% less power.

Moving on to the multi-threaded benchmarks, Qualcomm compares the Snapdragon X Elite CPUs with 12 Oryon cores against Intel's 13th Gen 12 & 10 core CPU offerings. The CPU is said to deliver up to twice the multi-threaded performance in Geekbench 6 at the same power & match the peak performance of the competition while sipping in 68% less power.

The same is the case when comparing the CPU to the 14-core Intel Core i7-13800H CPU. The X Elite 12-core offers 60% faster performance at the same power and matches the peak performance of the competition while sipping 65% less power. Snapdragon X Elite is also said to deliver 50% better performance than the M2 in multi-threaded though this is the Non-Max chip being talked about in the specific test.

Lastly, Qualcomm is sharing the integrated GPU performance against Intel's Core i7-13800H and AMD's Ryzen 9 7940HS. The 13th Gen CPUs have weaker integrated graphics so the performance gain at the