• Leaked benchmarks for the Snapdragon X Elite bode well for the chipmaker’s laptop aspirations.
• Results from GeekBench 6 reveal the X Elite outperformed Intel and AMD processors by a large margin.
• While this leak should be taken with a grain of salt, the figures are mighty impressive and should worry Intel, AMD, and Apple.

The cream of Snapdragon’s crop is set to be the X Elite platform which can hit clock speeds of up to 3.8GHz. While that’s not as fast as Intel’s newest silicon, Intel and AMD may want to keep an eye on the goings-on at Qualcomm.

This is because on Monday, performance figures for the X Elite were leaked and they are mighty impressive.

User techinamul on X shared Geekbench 6 scores of a Lenovo laptop running the X Elite and the platform achieved a single-core score of 2 427 while the multi-core score hit a magnificent 14 254.

As reported by Tom’s Hardware, this is around 4 000 points above an Intel Core i9-13900H and around 3 000 points above an Intel Core i7-13700HX, and AMD’s Ryzen 9 8945HS.

The X Elite platform is loaded with compute power including an Oryon CPU, an Adreno GPU, and a Hexagon NPU. The NPU enables artificial intelligence workloads and is capable of power on-device AI at a 30 tokens per second. While it’s not matching the power of the server farms the likes of OpenAI are using, it’s interesting to see the tech on consumer-grade hardware.

Not only does the X Elite platform run faster, it reportedly sips power. Qualcomm claimed at launch that devices running the platform will enjoy “multi-day battery life on a single charge”. That would be incredible if it turns out to be true in real-world applications.

While AMD and Intel are the headliners here, it appears that the real competition for Qualcomm here is Apple with its M chips. Of course, the real question then becomes whether Qualcomm will compete with Apple on price.

These benchmark figures, coupled with reports from influencers who played Control and Baldur’s Gate 3 on laptops running the X Elite platform last week bode very well for Qualcomm’s aspirations.

If we were Intel and AMD, we’d be worried.