Jun 14, 2024 20:00:00

Benchmarks show that some Snapdragon X Elite-equipped PCs perform worse than the iPhone 12 mini

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Snapdragon X Elite ' is advertised as having higher performance than Intel and AMD CPUs and Apple M2, and is also installed in the ' Copilot+ PC ', which features high AI performance. However, a benchmark result of a PC equipped with Snapdragon X Elite posted by a Reddit user on June 10, 2024 shows that the performance is lower than that of the ' iPhone 12 mini ' released in 2021.

Snapdragon X Elite in the wild is allegedly slower than iPhone 12 — first benchmarks of Samsung Book4 Edge disappointment | Tom's Hardware
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In May 2024, Microsoft announced the 'Copilot+ PC,' a PC suitable for running AI, including the AI assistant 'Copilot' that comes standard with Windows 11. Copilot+ PC has improved performance and power efficiency for AI workloads, and is said to be an excellent PC for running AI workloads locally.

Microsoft announces 'Copilot+ PC', equipped with Arm processor 'Snapdragon X Elite' for local AI execution - GIGAZINE

Microsoft has announced the 'Surface Pro' and 'Surface Laptop' equipped with Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus as Copilot+ PCs, and third parties such as Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung have also decided to release Copilot+ PCs. The ' Galaxy Book4 Edge ', which is scheduled to be released by Samsung as one of the Copilot+ PCs, is equipped with Qualcomm's SoC 'Snapdragon X Elite'.

Reddit user caponica23, who obtained the Galaxy Book 4 Edge, posted the results of his benchmark test on GeekBench on June 10th.

When running on battery power, the Galaxy Book 4 Edge achieved a GeekBench benchmark score of 1829 in single-core and 11379 in multi-core.

When plugged in, the single-core result was 1841, and the multi-core result was 11537.

These scores are significantly lower than the results published by Qualcomm at the press event, shocking Internet users. One X user pointed out that the benchmark score of the Galaxy Book 4 Edge is lower than that of the iPhone 12 mini, which was released in 2021.

For those who can't comprehend how f*cking miserable this is, the X Elite's actual big core performance is slower than the 4-year-old A14 chip in the iPhone 12 mini.

Qualcomm initially inflated the single-core score to 3200, which dropped to 2900 in an actual Windows environment,…

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A look at the GeekBench website reveals that in addition to the Reddit reports, there are several other reports of the Galaxy Book 4 Edge achieving single-core scores in the 1700-1800 range.

In addition, we have also found cases where PCs equipped with Snapdragon X Elite other than the Galaxy Book 4 Edge have shared benchmark results that are far below the iPhone 12 mini.

The reason for the reported low performance of some Snapdragon X Elite PCs may be due to 'insufficient optimization of the OS or drivers' or 'malfunctions of the hardware or firmware.' Therefore, performance may improve by the official release date.