It's a rare opportunity to get almost perfectly identical laptops with different processors, so when we got the Dell XPS 13 (9350) with Intel's new Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" processor, we just had to pit it against the XPS 13 (9345) with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite XIE-80-100 chipset. It's the closest to a complete silicon head-to-head we can get with a face-off since the XPS 13 chassis and FHD display are the same across both units.
While this face-off won't end the whole Intel vs. Qualcomm debate, it does offer something close to an apples-to-apples comparison of the benefits and drawbacks of both systems. And that's the kind of granular processor comparison that I live for.
