Snapdragon X Elite Outperforms Apple M2 in Multi-Threaded Benchmarks
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Microsoft has showcased benchmarks and real-world tests demonstrating its new Qualcomm-powered Surface Laptop outperforming Apple's MacBook Air M3 in various aspects, including raw performance, real-world tasks, battery life, and AI acceleration. The Surface Laptop achieved higher scores in Cinebench and Geekbench multithreaded tests, completed video encoding tasks faster, and offered longer battery life in web browsing and video playback simulations. Additionally, the NPU in the Snapdragon X Elite processor showed superior AI acceleration performance compared to Apple's M3 Neural Engine.
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- Qualcomm releases official Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU Notebookcheck.net
- Snapdragon X Elite shows 2X higher multi-threaded performance than Apple M2 in new benchmarks — Apple M2 is faster in single-threaded performance, though Tom's Hardware
- Dear Microsoft: You're never going to beat Apple, so stop trying Macworld
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