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Do you think a Snapdragon

Launching this type of processor for desktop computers is focused, without a doubt, on competing with the Mac Mini from Apple. Qualcomm has been distributing a development kit for some time so that developers can work directly on this architecture to test and develop their applications without having to resort to Windows 11 emulation.

One of these developers, Jeff Gerling, has received one of these kits managed by the processor Snapdragon X Elitethe same one found in laptops already available on the market. One of the questions that many users ask ourselves after Qualcomm’s announcement to launch this processor for desktop computers is to know what its performance is.

Performance far from expected

Geerling has subjected the Qualcomm development kit to the tests of Geekbench 6 and Cinebench 2024. During testing, CPU consumption was between 80 and 100W. This represents a considerable increase in consumption with respect to this processor in laptop computers and which is set at 23W.

Not having an established consumption limit, it was logical to expect that the performance that it offered was much superior to its equivalent for laptops, however, this is not the case.

In the test with all cores running on Geekbench, the Qualcomm development kit obtained a score of 15,969, while in the test with one core it reached 3,020 points. The Cinebench 2024 test achieved a score of 1,227 points.

Last July, we had the opportunity to review the ASUS Vivobook S 15, a laptop powered by the Snapdragon X Elite, which, in theory, is the same processor used in the Qualcomm development kit.

The performance results we obtained in the performance test of the ASUS Vivobook S15 In the multi-core test it was 14,417 points while in the single-core test it was 2,392 points.

Geekbench CPU

In Cinebench 2024, it achieved a score of 906 points.

Cinebench Snapdragon X Elite

With these results on the table, we see how to quadruple the power consumption It only serves to increase performance a little more, it does not represent a significant improvement that is really worth the investment.

The Snapdragon X Elite is not a desktop processor

The Qualcomm Snapdragon

As we mentioned above, this development kit is only designed so that application developers can optimize their applications using this architecture. It is not designed for anything else.

According to various sources, Qualcomm is already working on a range of processors with this architecture to desktop PCsprocessors that will allow you to get more out of this architecture without taking into account consumption.

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