Qualcomm brings the receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, proves it beats Apple’s M2 processor

[Windows Central]

Qualcomm made big claims with its Snapdragon X Elite platform and Oryon CPU, but the company proved it to the press last week with a special benchmarking session where we could witness just how powerful its new laptop CPU really is.

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[naddy69]

"The MacBook Pro 13” with M2 processor came last (compared to our best gaming laptops) with 2,658 single-thread and 10,088 multi-thread. By comparison, Qualcomm pulled off 2,940 ST, 15,130 MT".

Is that supposed to be impressive? The M2 in the 13" MacBook Pro is an 8 core CPU. The actual low end of the M2 family. The X Elite is 12 cores. Not exactly a valid comparison. Nor an honest comparison.

Not to mention that the 8 core M2 was released in June 2022. So Qualcomms new, not even available yet chip with 12 cores is faster than Apple's 1+ year old 8 core chip.

Whoopie.

Why aren't you comparing to the Apple 16" MacBook Pro with the M2 Pro? It has 12 cores. The X Elite is basically the same speed (slightly faster) as Apple's 11 month old M2 Pro.

Again, Whoopie.

Yesterday, the Apple M3 was released. How well do you think the X Elite is going to compare to that? Not to mention that by the time laptops arrive with the X Elite late next year, the Apple M4 will be imminent.

"Apple Mac Moment" indeed.

Yes, the X Elite will be a huge advance for WOA. But only because existing WOA laptops are a joke.

So stop lying about it "trouncing Apple's M2". It does not "trounce" the M2 Pro. Which is the only valid comparison.

Then there is the M2 Ultra, which is two M2 Pros. So that is 24 CPU cores and 76 GPU cores. What does Qualcomm have to compare to that?