The 3rd generation Snapdragon 8cx has been greatly improved
Qualcomm is currently working hard to develop better performance Qualcomm Snapdragon processors for PCs, including a new chip code-named SC 8280 that may be an upgraded version of 8cx.
SC8280 has multiple versions, the highest performance version is clocked at 2.7 GHz, with 4 Gold+ cores and 4 Gold cores composed of large and small core designs.
The company may hope to improve processor performance in this way to compete with Apple, after all, the use of ARM on desktop platforms has gradually become a new trend.
This processor is likely to be the third-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor, and now the benchmarking website Geekbench shows the processor’s running score data.
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The first-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor single-core running scored 726 points, multi-core running scored 2909 points, which is a huge gap compared to traditional desktop processors such as Intel.
The second-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor has a single-core score of 794 points and a multi-core score of 3036 points. It is said that Microsoft’s Surface Pro X’s custom chip SQ1 is based on this.
The newly leaked third-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor has a single-core run of 982 points and a multi-core run of 4918 points. Compared with the previous two generations of products, the performance is indeed greatly improved.
As a comparison to the Intel i7-1165G7 used by Microsoft Surface Pro 7+, the single-core score is 1358 points and the multi-core score is 5246 points. It seems that the gap between Qualcomm has narrowed.
But compared with Apple’s M1 processor, it is cruel: M1 single-core 1720 points multi-core 7668 points, which means that the new 3rd generation Snapdragon 8cx is still very far from it.
