Qualcomm, which has been surpassed by MediaTek in the mobile processor market, has tried to apply the ARM-based Snapdragon processor to notebook computers in recent years. The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor released earlier, the manufacturer claims to have a lot of improvements compared to Gen 2, but the recent benchmark exposure has been significantly behind Apple’s M2 processor.
Laptop price is the same as MBA
Only the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, a laptop priced at the same $1,200 as the M2 version of the MacBook Air, uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor. According to the Geekbench 5 running score screenshots uploaded by netizens to Twitter, the ThinkPad X13s using the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 scored 1,111 and 5,764 points in single-core and multi-core, respectively.
performance difference
The Apple M2 processor released at WWDC in June this year, the Geekbench 5 running score is 1,919 points for single-core and 8,928 points for multi-core, compared with Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which is 35% inferior in multi-core and 42% in single-core. . This Qualcomm processor is even 36% and 25% lower than the Apple M1’s 1,746 and 7,733 points released at the end of 2020. It is no wonder that some analysts say that Apple has a lead in ARM computer processors by as much as 3 years.
Source: wccftech
