I think a lot of people don't realize the level of performance Qualcomm has reached with these. This is the closest competition to Apple's M series that we have, for the laptop form factor at least. They are better than Intel and AMD's best. I'd love to buy an X2 laptop with Linux preinstalled and supported.
that's x2 plus. look for benchmarks of the x2 elite extreme, which currently is selling with 48gb ram for $1370: <a href="https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-zenbook-a16-16-3k-oled-touchscreen-laptop-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-2026-48gb-memory-512gb-storage-copilot-pc-zabriskie-beige/JJGHGSGFLJ/sku/6674414" rel="nofollow">https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-zenbook-a16-16-3k-oled-...
20% slower than the M5 is still a great result. I'm still using an M1 macbook pro, and it's more than fast enough for editing film, browsing the internet and writing code.
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Not very close at all, not even to the two-year-old model, it appears
<a href="https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-x2-plus-loses-to-m4-in-4-out-of-5-cpu-and-gpu-tests/" rel="nofollow">https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-x2-plus-loses-to-m4-in-4-out...
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<a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/19122559" rel="nofollow">https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/19122559
<a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14591329" rel="nofollow">https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14591329
yup... still laughably behind by nearly 20%. And that is behind the M5, not even the current M6
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20% slower than the M5 is still a great result. I'm still using an M1 macbook pro, and it's more than fast enough for editing film, browsing the internet and writing code.
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