Snapdragon PCs will be slower than iPhone 12 mini: should we be worried?

The first computers equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon The user has already been able to execute the benchmarks and display alarming results.

Will the big promises from Qualcomm and Microsoft be fulfilled? More than 6 months ago, the two giants promised to release a new generation of personal computers that are finally able to properly compete with Apple's MacBooks equipped with Apple Silicon chips.

If some results seem encouraging, others may be worrying. Last April, a media outlet accused Qualcomm of lying about the results of its new chips. Just days before the launch of Copilot+ PCs, this is a new benchmark that questions the brand's promises.

Geekbench is at the peak of daisies

On Reddit, user capconica23 posted His first returns On the Samsung Galaxy Book Edge equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon We can see images of the ultraportable devices, as well as the first results of the performance test on Geekbench.

Through this test, the computer gets a score of about 1829 to 1841 points per core when it is on battery or connected to electricity, and about 11379 to 11537 points when it is multi-core. On a single core, this would put the Snapdragon X Elite below the Apple A14 Bionic in the iPhone 12 mini, a smartphone launched in 2020.

A score much lower than Qualcomm promised for this chip: 2940 and 15130 points respectively.

How do we explain this result?

Should we panic before publishing this standard? not yet.

First, this is one result posted by one user. If we publish it truthfully, we are not safe from a defective copy. In this regard, he points out that the chip was not able to climb to a frequency higher than 2.52 GHz. The chip's datasheet indicates a maximum frequency of 4.0 to 4.3 GHz depending on the model. The problem may be a missing driver update.

It's also a special model: Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge. Each manufacturer can integrate an AMD, Intel, or Qualcomm chip in a different way with a different cooling system. In its theoretical results, Qualcomm has undoubtedly taken the best possible case for a very well-cooled laptop. To achieve quality and noise standards, Samsung may have made other choices.

So it's too early to write a conclusion about the performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon It is urgent to wait for the tests to be published by the press. With more publications, different tests, on different versions, and from different brands, we will be able to get a better idea of ​​the real performance of this new platform.