Every year, around this time, Qualcomm presents the new generation of mobile processors that will hit the market in the coming months. Since last year, it also presents the next generation that will reach the portable equipment. Faithful to its annual event, Qualcomm has just presented the next generation of processors for both PCs and mobiles.
This new range of Qualcomm processors implements the Oryon processors in the mobile version, which is currently used in Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Pluswhich represents a significant advance compared to the previous generation.
Second generation of Qualcomm ARM processors
From mid-2024, processors with ARM architecture from Qualcomm are now available on the market, within the range of Surface laptops and convertibles from Microsoft, one of the standard-bearers of this new architecture as well as among other manufacturers.
The second generation of its range of processors with ARM architecture will hit the market in early 2025, offering a longer battery lifeeven greater than what the current generation already offers. During the presentation, Qualcomm’s senior vice president stated that:
With leading CPU, GPU, and NPU capabilities, the Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers dramatic improvements in performance and power efficiency3. Additionally, it revolutionizes mobile experiences by delivering personalized, multi-modal generative AI directly on the device, enabling insight of speech, context and images to improve everything from productivity to creativity tasks, while prioritizing user privacy.
The second generation of Qualcomm processors with PC architecture offers a 40% more performance and energy performance in the graphics section, one of the weakest points of these processors while the improvement in performance stands at 44%.
Qualcomm contradicts Intel
At this same event, Qualcomm took the opportunity to criticize Intel, stating that this new generation of processors is faster than the previous ones. Intel Core Ultra 200 for laptops, stating that Intel did not tell the whole story, that is, omitting benchmarks in the very important comparisons when buying a laptop.
One of the slides that he showed during the event, updating the information with the new Intel and Qualcomm processors, we see how the Snapdragon 1E-84-100 Outperforms the Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 256V by up to 10% in Geekbench with a single core consuming, plus 38% more power.
In the multi-core test, the performance improvement is even greater, with the Qualcomm X1E-84-100 being 52% faster and with 113% higher power consumption.
In this comparison, it is striking that the Intel Core Ultra 7 265V instead of the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V. The reason may be related to the lack of availability of this processor in the market. The computer with the processor used to carry out the test with the Intel processor is the Dell XPS 13 range while the computer with the Qualcomm processor is the Samsung Galay Book4.
Qualcomm states that during the presentation of the new Intel Core Ultra 9 200 For laptops, the company does not include the ARM processor Qualcomm’s fastest, the 1E84-100 that has been used for this comparison, so Intel’s statement in which it said that its cores are the fastest, is completely false.
