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Oliver Haslam

Early Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks lag behind Apple's M3 equivalent and can't get near its brand-new M4

M3 MacBook Pro review.

Microsoft's recent event saw the company announce all manner of things, not least the Surface Pro 11 powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chip. It's a chip that Qualcomm and PC vendors hope will offer the performance and energy efficiency that Intel simply hasn't been able to, all while going toe-to-toe with Apple silicon.

We've been hearing a lot about the chip over the past few weeks and months and we're now starting to see a raft of early benchmark results pop up via Geekbench. These kinds of results are always interesting, and following the launch of the OLED iPad Pro with Apple's first M4 chip, comparisons were always going to be made.

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