Snapdragon X Elite - STILL Waiting for Benchmarks

Snapdragon X Elite is a new ARM-based CPU for Windows PCs, which is being pushed heavily by Microsoft by making them the first Copilot+ certified products you can buy. But are they actually any good?

[ferdgerbeler]

You don't hide your numbers if they're good ...

[tek]

I do find it hilarious how most of the reviews are praising the build quality like it's exclusive to the Snapdragon X Elite, forgetting the fact that next gen AMD and Intel CPUs will also use the same chassis in a month.

[shApYT]

At least with ARC we had numbers from various sources agreed. With the Snapdragon X, I'm still unsure if battery performance is better than meteor lake or not.

[divyjotsingh]

"If you cant impress them with your intellect, baffle them with your bullshit" - qcomm

[atemoc]

The insane amount of likes LTT's ad for those chips got worries me deeply

[Pvinini]

I thought I would go crazy from Philip deficiency!! Thank you for the upload =D

[benjiro]

In simple words: Its a product that needed to have launched in 2023, when they did the anouncments ... In 2024, its okish (and a impressive "finally" competitive windows arm product in the x86 market), but so close to a entire new series of Intel/AMD/Apple releases...

[chinesesparrows]

It seems they left marks on a random bench somewhere

[fVNzO]

I like how the snapdragon team took the worst, most despised marketing from apples M presentations and copied it down to the last pixel peeping detail: The horrendous "relative performance" graphs with practically zero utility. Everyone made fun of apple for lacking transparency or competence on that front, and snapdragon thought wow what a fantastic graphic! We have to do that as well!

[anasevi]

I have to laud the ARC driver team, even if I am not a fan of the company. I've seen their driver team deal with a lot of niche issues I would not have expected to get fixed, well for years given Radeon driver's team attitude to OpenGL, and that was back during the 2015-2019 heyday of GCN when the AMD driver stack was otherwise very mature for the market.

[amirmirzaei]

I've lost all hype for it like 5 months ago. Since 2023 I kept hearing about "Windows on ARM!" "snapdragon powered laptops!" and it took soo long that I got bored of them.

[Petch]

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When I realised that Snapdragon X Elite not was a specific chip but just extra fluff added to the real names X1E-84, X1E-80 and X1E-78 + extra fluff (100). The X also seem unnecessary and the 1 I expect to be generation, but hey they got a name. And that name is not used on the "performance graphs". That is a major red flag. Especially when they tried to make et seem like there was only 2 chips. X Elite and X Plus. Now the Elite performance could be the 84 and the Elite efficiency could be the 78, who knows. 🤷‍♂
I too am still waiting for benchmarks.

[nilslorand]

I've been waiting for benchmarks for so damn long already

[heloapako]

6k views in 2 hour, keep up the good work

[tanyesil]

these series of chips were meant to be the silver bullet for my laptop problems. i've been looking for this exact combination of impressive batterylife and okay power since the m1 chips but the biggest flaw of the m series was it's locked ecosystem. it seems the x series chips will get pretty good linux support since the kernel already supports important functionality. but its annoying to see it wrapped in so much bogus and unnecessary hype.

[damienbalbriggan]

That was an excellent video and mirrored my thoughts exactly.

[nogussy]

you are my only news source for pc news lol, i've never heard of this before and i used to be always on top of these things

[whiplash]

Didn't even know they actually released.

[_monti]

this the usual wait for Gen 2 of the product

[kajojo]

I felt the same way when I watched the first reviews on release day.
I was particularly interested in how well the APU runs with linux, as ARM has been historically supported really well on linux, but I still haven't found any videos testing that. I thought that after months of hype there'd be loads of reviews on release.