THE BIG PICTURE: Affordable Copilot+ laptops powered by the 8-core Snapdragon X Plus processor are expected to debut at IFA 2024 in Berlin later this month. However, early leaked benchmark results suggest the new SoC may fall short of expectations, especially for gamers.
The benchmark scores point to disappointing performance in both CPU and GPU tests. In Cinebench 2024, the new chip scored 102 points in single-core mode, 5% lower than the 107 points achieved by the 10-core Snapdragon X Plus processor. In the multi-core test, the new processor managed just 649 points, 20% behind the 809 points of the more powerful version.
Its Blender and Geekbench scores were also underwhelming. The Snapdragon X Plus took 2:33.48s to finish the standard render test in Blender. In Geekbench 6, it scored only 2,422 points in the single-core test and 11,386 points in the multi-core benchmark.
In 3DMark Time Spy, the Adreno X1-45 GPU posted a total of 1,025 points, with a graphics score of just 916, significantly lower than the 1,900 points achieved by the Snapdragon X Elite. In 3DMark Steel Nomad, the GPU scored 1,159 points at just 8.6 FPS, roughly 40% lower than the X Elite.
The report also includes real-world gaming benchmarks for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and the results are not encouraging either. Even though the game is six years old, the GPU averaged just 18 FPS at 1080p on low settings and only 12 FPS on high settings at 1080p - again far below the 33 FPS achieved by the X Elite.
According to CPU-Z, the tested chip has eight Oryon CPU cores split into two clusters running at 3.24 GHz and 3.42 GHz. The CPU is built on a 4nm process and has a total of 30MB of cache, including 12MB of L2 cache per cluster. The GPU is an Adreno X1-45 clocked at 280 MHz, delivering 1.7 TFLOPS of AI compute. The NPU, however, still provides 45 TFLOPS, meeting Microsoft's minimum requirement for Copilot+ PCs.
The Snapdragon X Plus chipset, codenamed "X1P-42-100," was developed specifically for mainstream Copilot+ PCs. The benchmarks were run on an ASUS ProArt PZ13 laptop with the model number "HT5306QA_HT5306QA." The laptop is equipped with LPDDR5X-8448 memory and runs Windows 11 build 26100.
Source: WCCFTECH
