Qualcomm says Snapdragon X Elite blows away Apple’s M3 chip with 28% faster performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite.

So far, we’ve heard about how fast the Snapdragon X Elite could be, but now we’re starting to see just how fast it is. In fact, it’s so fast, the M3 MacBook Air has been left in the dust.

According to internal testing seen by Tom’s Guide, the X Elite is 28% faster than the Apple M3 chip when put through the paces in Geekbench 6.2. This test is for CPU peak performance based on a geometric mean of multiple runs, using Qualcomm’s laptop reference design that we got the chance to put through its paces.