Recently, Hardware Canucks was authorized by ASUS to conduct a benchmark test on Zenbook laptops equipped with Snapdragon X2 Elite, showing surprising competitiveness in multiple tests. It is worth noting that the Snapdragon X2 Elite tested this time is not the Extreme version with a higher positioning, but its performance improvement has been considerable.
At 31W power consumption (5W higher than the 26W of Apple M5), the chip defeated the M5 three times in five benchmark tests, while comprehensively crushing the previous generation Snapdragon X Elite.The details are as follows:
Cinebench 2024 (single core)
Snapdragon X2 Elite - 146 (35.2% faster than Snapdragon X Elite)
SnapdragonX Elite-108
M5 - 200 (37% faster than Snapdragon X2 Elite)
Cinebench 2024 (multi-core)
Snapdragon X2 Elite - 1432 (24.2% faster than M5, 48.7% faster than Snapdragon X Elite)
SnapdragonX Elite-963
M5-1153
Blender 5.01 (lower numbers are better)
Snapdragon X2 Elite – 3 minutes and 31 seconds
Snapdragon X Elite – 5 minutes and 24 seconds
M5 - 5 minutes 33 seconds
Handbrake (the lower the value, the better)
Snapdragon X2 Elite – 3 minutes and 29 seconds
Snapdragon X Elite – 5 minutes and 32 seconds
M5 - 5 minutes 14 seconds
DaVinci Resolve 20.3 (lower numbers are better)
Snapdragon X2 Elite - 22 minutes and 06 seconds
Snapdragon X Elite – 33 minutes and 16 seconds
M5 - 9 minutes 43 seconds
It should be noted that the test model is a pre-production sample, the driver and firmware are still in the early stages, and the performance of the final retail version may be different. But even so, the Snapdragon X2 Elite has demonstrated the hard power of the Windows on ARM camp to challenge the Apple ecosystem.
