Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptop chip is slower than Apple M3 in single-core, and less power efficient<div class="feat-image">
</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>
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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon laptop chip is slower than Apple M3 in single-core, and less power efficient
