Microsoft's all-new Surface Laptop sporting Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC has been tested and reviewed by a third party, Signal65. The review was commissioned by Microsoft, and other reviewers haven't been able to chime in just yet, but the results seem to confirm what Qualcomm has been saying. The testing compared the X Elite-equipped Surface to four other devices in a plethora of benchmarks, including thermal testing, to see how Qualcomm's new silicon stacks up.
Ryan Shrout shows that Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC delivers as advertised. The chip boasts outstanding AI performance and features incredibly long battery life in Microsoft's latest Surface laptop. CPU performance was also excellent, often outperforming Intel's Meteor Lake processors and, at times, outperforming Apple's M3 silicon. The chip also boasts good thermal behavior, featuring competitively low surface temperatures even under maximum load.
The new X Elite Surface laptop was compared with Microsoft's older Surface Laptop 5 sporting an Alder Lake Core i7-1255U, the Surface Pro 9 with SQ3 silicon, MSI's Prestige 16 AI EVO sporting Intel's latest Meteor Lake Core Ultra 7 155H, and Apple's latest MacBook Air 15 running on M3 silicon.
