Snapdragon 8cx was more powerful Intel Core i5

Introduced last year, the 7-nanometer Snapdragon 8cx chip for Windows computers has become Qualcomm's most productive SoC. But is it enough to compete with current models of Intel processors? As it turned out, yes. 

Qualcomm has unveiled the results of its Snapdragon 8cx and Core i5 8250U testing in PCMark and 3DMark benchmarks. The “dragon” is based on the 7-nanometer process technology, consists of eight 64-bit Kryo cores (TDP 7 W) and an Adreno 680 video accelerator, while the Intel chip is based on 10-nm process technology, received 4 cores of 1.60 GHz each (TDP 15 W) and UHD 620 graphics.

In the standard benchmark, the performance of the Snapdragon 8cx applications did not lose in speed to the Intel chip: in some tests it won the first, in others it won the second. It turns out an interesting result, because SoC with half the heat release can provide equal performance in everyday tasks equal to Core i5 8250U. Moreover, in graphics tests, the Qualcomm solution has become a leader with a large margin in all GPU tests. 

The first device on the Snapdragon 8cx will be the Lenovo laptop-transformer: it works on 5G networks, has Wi-Fi 802.11ad, 802.11ac Wave 2, 802.11a / b / g and 802.11n, Bluetooth 5.0 and NFC modules, and also supports image output on two external 4K screens. The new product will be RAM LPDDR4x-2133, flash UFS 3.0 and USB 3.1 Type-C connectors.