When Qualcomm confirmed off its benchmarks of its new Snapdragon X Elite chips final October, there was one flaw in its argument: Qualcomm was evaluating the brand new Snapdragon platform to Intel’s older Thirteenth-gen Core chips. That’s been mounted. Now Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon X Elite is quicker than Intel’s 14th-gen Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) too.

Last October, Qualcomm stated that its Snapdragon X Elite might match the efficiency of the Intel Core i9-13980HX at 70 p.c much less energy. Subsequent hands-off benchmarks of the Snapdragon X Elite appeared to bear that out. But Intel hadn’t launched its Meteor Lake architecture but to supply a head-to-head comparability. Now it has, and Qualcomm is crowing as soon as once more.

In a Monday afternoon briefing, Qualcomm executives supplied the identical type of comparisons to Intel’s Core Ultra because it did to Intel’s Thirteenth-gen chips, evaluating energy and efficiency. Specifically, Qualcomm known as out two chips: the Core Ultra 7 155H (16 cores, which embody 6 efficiency cores and eight effectivity cores, with a 4.8GHz max turbo velocity) and the premium although comparable Core Ultra 9 185H (16 cores, which embody 6 efficiency cores and eight effectivity cores, with a 5.1GHz max turbo velocity).

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, in the meantime, is made up of 12 Oryon CPU cores, every working at 3.8GHz. Two of these cores can increase as much as 4.3GHz. Though the Oryon is predicated upon the Arm structure, Qualcomm didn’t undertake the normal hierarchy of efficiency and effectivity cores. That method as an alternative was adopted by Intel, and its Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processor.

Here’s how Qualcomm sees the 2 examine. (The Geekbench 6.2 benchmark is getting used as a degree of comparability. If it issues, Qualcomm used the Asus Zenbook 14 OLED to check the Core Ultra 7 155H and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 to check the Core Ultra 9 chip. PCWorld has examined the same Asus ROG Zephyrus M16.)

• In single-threaded efficiency, Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon X Elite is 54 p.c sooner than the Core Ultra 7 155H on the identical energy, or, when efficiency is equalized, consumes 65 p.c much less energy.
• In multi-threaded efficiency, the Snapdragon X Elite is 52 p.c sooner than the Core Ultra 7 155H on the identical energy, or, when efficiency is equalized, consumes 60 p.c much less energy.

Against the Core Ultra 9 155H Qualcomm sees its Snapdragon X Elite additionally examine favorably:

• In single-threaded functions on the identical energy, Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon X Elite is 51 p.c sooner than the Core Ultra 9 155H, consuming 65 p.c much less energy if the efficiency is equalized.
• In multi-threaded functions on the identical energy, the Snapdragon X Elite is 41 p.c sooner than the Core Ultra 9 155H, consuming 58 p.c much less energy if the efficiency is equalized.
• In graphics, the Snapdragon X Elite is 36 p.c sooner utilizing the UL 3DMark Wild Life Extreme benchmark than the Core Ultra 9 155H on the identical energy, and consumes 50 p.c much less energy if the efficiency is normalized.

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Qualcomm can also be saying that its Oryon core contained in the Snapdragon X Elite outperforms Apple’s M3 processor by 22 p.c: 15,610 versus 12,154 utilizing Geekbench 6.2.

There is, after all, an omission: Qualcomm isn’t saying how nicely the Snapdragon X Elite compares to Intel’s 14th-gen Core HX components. But PCWorld’s exams present that Intel’s 14th-gen Core HX mobile chips don’t exceed the very similar 13th-gen Core HX chips by that a lot, that means we in all probability have already got a stable level of comparability right here, too.

“This is a phenomenal part, the coverage has been awesome, the reception has been great,” stated Nitin Kumar, Qualcomm senior director of product administration, stated in an interview with PCWorld. “We’re very excited about what we announced and where we are headed.”

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Qualcomm executives have nonetheless not nailed down the precise battery lifetime of a Snapdragon X Elite platform, which is affected by the battery measurement, workloads, and different elements. But “multiday” battery life is feasible, executives stated. Just utilizing a Snapdragon X Elite chip, versus the competing Intel processor, might enhance the battery life by 40 p.c.

Qualcomm additionally continued to indicate off increasingly functions that can run natively on the Arm processor utilized by the Snapdragon chips. Even in the event that they do need to be emulated, Qualcomm executives consider that the efficiency of the chip will elevate software efficiency. “Even apps that are not native, but are running in emulation mode, emulation performance is vastly improved,” Kumar stated.

We gained’t know the way Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite truly performs till laptops utilizing it enter our labs. A grand whole of 9 PC makers have signed on to use Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chip — which, not less than on paper, continues to impress.