Qualcomm asserts that the Snapdragon Qualcomm's Arm chip is purportedly over 60 percent more energy efficient compared to the Intel chips in specific tasks.
During a press event with PC World, Qualcomm has shared some statistics about the Snapdragon X Elite. It is claimed to be around 54 percent faster than an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H in single-threaded tasks of Geekbench 6 with a similar power consumption of roughly 7 watts. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 155H and the Intel Core 7 155H have a comparable power consumption of about 22 watts.
The company concludes that the Snapdragon's GPU is approximately 36 percent faster in this test than the GPU of the Intel Core 7 155H. The integrated GPU of the Snapdragon chip is said to be about 51 percent faster than the Intel Core 9 Ultra chip in single-threaded tasks in Geekbench 6 with a comparable power consumption of roughly 9 watts. In the multithreaded test, Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon, announced in October 2023. This involves an Arm chip based on technology from Nuvia, a chip designer acquired by Qualcomm in 2021.
The Snapdragon cores are based on the Arm-v9 architecture. Additionally, there is an npu cluster for AI tasks that allows running large language models with 13 billion parameters locally. The SoC can be paired with a maximum of 64GB Lpddr5x memory with a bandwidth of 136GB/s. For storage, the SoC supports SD 3.0 NVMe over PCIe Gen 4 and UFS 4.0. The modem is compatible with 5G up to 10Gbit/s and a maximum of Wi-Fi 7.
Qualcomm states that they are collaborating with Microsoft to ensure Arm systems are compatible with Windows so that more applications can run natively on Arm. The initial laptops with the Snapdragon chip.
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