Early independent reviews of the Snapdragon X Elite have been disappointing, belying Qualcomm’s encouraging preliminary numbers. The company’s internal tests indicated scores of 2,977 in single-core and 15,086 in multi-core in Geekbench 6, creating high expectations for this new SoC. However, the results of unbiased evaluations have been significantly lower.
The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge, which incorporates the Snapdragon Qualcomm’s preliminary data. Surprisingly, in the single-core tests, the Snapdragon
The main cause of this discrepancy appears to be the Snapdragon X Elite’s aggressive frequency management, which significantly reduces operating speed to optimize battery life. During testing, the processor did not exceed 2.52 GHz in turbo mode, although Qualcomm had stated that it could reach 4 GHz. This inconsistency in performance suggests that the chip is not capable of sustaining higher frequencies stably.
Additionally, other laptops with the Snapdragon This confirms that the performance issues are not unique to the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge.
It will be interesting to see how this situation evolves with more exhaustive analyzes of devices that integrate the Snapdragon X Elite, a processor that promised a lot but, so far, has not met expectations.
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