It seemed that the old controversy between x86 and ARM processors would never subside again, but early results from the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme tests showed a significant advantage over the latest Intel and AMD processors in both single-core and multi-core performance.

These results came from the Geekbench 6.5 platform, where the new processor outperformed both the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Intel Core Ultra 7 258V, as well as the original Snapdragon X Elite version that PCWorld had previously tested.

Similarly, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme proved to be clearly superior at Cinebench 2024 over x86 processors and even over its previous generation of processors.

The new processor (X2E-96-100) carries an 18-core CPU: 12 Prime cores at 4.4 GHz with all active cores (up to 5.0 GHz with proper cooling), along with 6 Performance cores at 3.6 GHz without additional boost.

Qualcomm has announced three versions of Gen X2: Elite Extreme (96), Elite (88), and Elite (80), all sharing the same 80 TOPS NPU, but with differences in CPU, graphics, and cache configurations.