Just a moment to take in what you were looking at. Qualcomm’s rumored 12-core chip finally sounds like a true ARM revolution for PCsĪ brief glimpse of a desktop. Lagging in games? This Windows 11 update might fix the problem New Windows 11 update adds ChatGPT-powered Bing AI to the taskbar Your next smartphone might have an Intel processor - seriously However, considering Microsoft’s partners are launching medium-end laptops with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 processor (See the Samsung Galaxy Book Go,) it’s not out of the realm that a Surface Laptop could also sport the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3. Microsoft usually opts for using ARM-based chips in the Surface Pro X, so it’s more than likely this could be a Pro X device, rather than a Surface Laptop. Single-core scores, meanwhile, aren’t that comparable at 867 on the Qualcomm and 1541 on the Intel. The Qualcomm in question nets 5574, and the Intel, a 5571. Combined with Windows 11 optimization for ARM chips on the Microsoft side of things, we might finally start to see wider adoption.Īgain, we can’t verify the authenticity of the listing, as Geekbench listings can be altered, but the results show that in the multi-core score, the 8cx Gen 3 actually can come close to Intel’s 25-watt Core i7-1165G7 processor. That’s been a constant hurdle with ARM-powered PCs, specifically the Surface Pro X. Though we don’t know the true specs of the device Microsoft could have been testing here, the benchmarks actually show its results to be on par with Intel’s Tiger Lake U series chips. Other rumors from 2021 also showed that Microsoft’s SQ3 Chip (based on this Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3) could have delivered 60% performance improvement against the current SQ2, and performance equal to an Intel Core i7-1160G7 CPU.

Qualcomm previously indicated that the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 could deliver an up to 85% generational performance uplift and up to 60% greater performance per watt in Geekbench 5 multi-thread testing over an x86 processor. However, what matters most are the Geekbench results.

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