Apple's M3 chip is highly anticipated for its performance prowess, but according to a recent demo from Qualcomm shown to Digital Trends (via Tom's Guide), the Snapdragon X Elite is 21% faster than the M3 processor. In the Geekbench 6 multi-core test, the Snapdragon X Elite scored 15,300 and the M3 chip scored 12,154.
Leaked multi-core benchmark results for the M3 chip were 11,700, which isn't too far off from Qualcomm's test results above or the 11,870 score pulled by Tom's Guide during a Geekbench 6 test of Apple's M3 MacBook Pro 14 with 8GB of RAM. Could the Snapdragon X Elite actually be this much faster than the M3 chip? Quite possibly, but there are a few key things to note.
