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Title: Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptop chip is slower than Apple M3 in single-core, and less power efficient Post by: HCK on June 24, 2024, 04:05:06 pm Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptop chip is slower than Apple M3 in single-core, and less power efficient
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2024/06/snapdragon-microsoft-surface-pc.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Qualcomm has been touting the performance characteristics of its new Snapdragon X Elite series of ARM chips for a while, which finally debuted this week inside the new Copilot+ PC’s (albeit without the fancy AI Recall feature, which has been delayed following security concerns).</p> <p>While reviewers have more testing to do, the initial benchmarks and results paint a mixed bag. While the 12-core CPU Qualcomm chips are posting higher multi-core scores than the 8-core CPU M3 chip found in , the M3 is still unbeaten on single core. That means for many tasks, the MacBook Air will still be faster. The M3 chip is also more power efficient than the X Elite …</p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/19/qualcomms-new-snapdragon-laptop-chip-is-slower-than-apple-m3-in-single-core-and-less-power-efficient/#more-954772" data-post-id="954772" data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="apple-silicon,macbook-air" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptop chip is slower than Apple M3 in single-core, and less power efficient (https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/19/qualcomms-new-snapdragon-laptop-chip-is-slower-than-apple-m3-in-single-core-and-less-power-efficient/) |