Qualcomm Snapdragon X Showdown: Specs, Performance, and Differences

LaptopMedia.com Comparisons Qualcomm Snapdragon X Showdown: Specs, Performance, and Differences

From: Severin Kolakov 03 October 2024 / 11:30 0

Everybody is talking about the Snapdragon X processors, but nobody seems to be in on the fact that there are multiple versions of the Snapdragon X Elite, with varying levels of performance. Today we’re giving you the whole deal, comparing the specs, and performance, as well as checking out all the differences between the chips.

As you can see, there are several X Elite SoCs. All of them have the same number of cores, cache, memory type, and memory frequency (in the table below, this is labeled as transfer rate). The max frequency for all cores goes from 3.4GHz to 3.8GHz, while the lowest-grade X1E-78-100 doesn’t even have a Dual Core boost (this is where 2 of the 12 cores can boost their frequency even higher). There’s also a difference in the TFLOPS of the Adreno GPU, varying from 3.8 to 4.6 TFLOPS, which is a 21% increase.

EDIT 10/2024: Added three new Snapdragon X Plus CPUs

Processor	Qualcomm Oryon CPU				Qualcomm Adreno GPU	Qualcomm Hexagon NPU	Memory
	Cores	Cache	Max frequency	Dual-core boost	TFLOPS	NPU TOPS	Type
Snapdragon X Elite
X1E-00-1DE	12	42MB	3.8 GHz	4.3 GHz	4.6	45	LPDDR5x
X1E-84-100	12	42MB	3.8 GHz	4.2 GHz	4.6	45	LPDDR5x
X1E-80-100	12	42MB	3.4 GHz	4.0 GHz	3.8	45	LPDDR5x
X1E-78-100	12	42MB	3.4 GHz	None	3.8	45	LPDDR5x
Snapdragon X Plus
X1P-66-100	10	42MB	3.4 GHz	4.0 GHz (Single-core)	3.8	45	LPDDR5x
X1P-64-100	10	42MB	3.4 GHz	None	3.8	45	LPDDR5x
X1P-46-100	8	30MB	3.4 GHz	4.0 GHz (Single-core)	2.1	45	LPDDR5x
X1P-42-100	8	30MB	3.2 GHz	3.4 GHz (Single-core)	1.7	45	LPDDR5x

Benchmarks

You can clearly see the incremental performance increase from one version to the next. If you’ll be buying a laptop with the Snapdragon X Elite, make sure to check which version of the chip you’ll getting, in order to determine if it will have enough performance for your needs. We’ll try our hardest to review as many Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus laptops as possible, in order to give you a clear and honest assessment of the performance.

Single-core performance is useful for basic tasks, web browsing, or types of software that doesn’t utilize multiple cores efficiently (most games).

Multi-core performance is useful for heavy multitasking, video editing, 3D rendering, and scientific computations.

CPU	Single-Core Score	Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-00-1DE)	2933	15252
Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)	2922	15060
Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)	2741	14637
Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)	2393	13460
Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)	1720	13115
Apple M3 (reference)	3135	12042