Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus Loses to Base Apple M4 in 4 out of 5 CPU and Graphics Tests
Despite Qualcomm's bold promises of a "revolution" in the Windows laptop world, the first independent tests of the new Snapdragon X2 Plus platform (conducted by PCMag) have shown disappointing results. Qualcomm's new chip lost to the "older" Apple M4 chip (released back in 2024) in most key benchmarks.
- Test / Benchmark: Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)
- Snapdragon X2 Plus Result: 133
- Apple M4 Result: 173
- Test / Benchmark: Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)
- Snapdragon X2 Plus Result: 1011
- Apple M4 Result: 993
- Test / Benchmark: Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
- Snapdragon X2 Plus Result: 3311
- Apple M4 Result: 3859
- Test / Benchmark: Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
- Snapdragon X2 Plus Result: 14,940
- Apple M4 Result: 15,093
- Test / Benchmark: 3DMark Steel Nomad Light
- Snapdragon X2 Plus Result: 3067
- Apple M4 Result: 3949
- Test / Benchmark: 3DMark Wild Life Extreme
- Snapdragon X2 Plus Result: 12,525
- Apple M4 Result: 15,580