The Snapdragon

The Snapdragon Dev Kit was launched by Qualcomm for developers priced at $899 and included the company’s top-end chip for Windows-based machines, the Snapdragon X Elite. Since the chipset takes advantage of processor cores based on ARM’s instruction sets rather than the x86 architecture, power efficiency would be its strength. Unfortunately, the Snapdragon

Since Cinebench 2024 puts a lot of strain on the CPU, it was clear that the Snapdragon X Elite would achieve higher power consumption when operating with the Snapdragon Dev Kit

Given that the Snapdragon Dev Kit is not a mobile device and cannot function when worn, it would make sense for Qualcomm to keep the Snapdragon X Elite running at full speed so that developers have access to the full power capacity of the chipset receive. Jeff Geerling, a developer, noticed this behavior when launching Geekbench 6 and Cinebench 2024. The first benchmark showed that the Snapdragon X Elite’s power consumption was 80W, which is an acceptable range.

However, things look different in Cinebench 2024, as Geerling reports that the power consumption was in the range of 99W to 102W. At the end of the benchmarking test, the Snapdragon X Elite achieved a single-core and multi-core score of 131 and 1,227, respectively. These numbers show that the SoC can consume power like there is no tomorrow, but Geerling believes that Qualcomm may have done this intentionally so that the chipset can run at maximum performance and developers can take full advantage of the hardware.

It is unlikely that the same Snapdragon What the performance of the Snapdragon

According to PersonSuitTV on Reddit, the M3 Pro used a total of 46W in normal power mode during a Cinebench 2024 test, less than half as much as the Snapdragon X Elite. The M3 Max saw a power peak of 87W during the same test with the 16-core CPU version, and as you already know, that Apple Silicon can easily outrun the Snapdragon X Elite.

News source: Jeff Geerling