Microsoft and Qualcomm are working together on the next-generation Snapdragon processor, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4. A new Geekbench benchmark suggests that Qualcomm’s new ARM CPU is finally catching up to the Apple M2, and is even on par with Apple Silicon in some multi-core tests.
As reported by Windows Latest, Qualcomm internally refers to the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 as “Hamoa.” It uses adapted ARM cores, which is what gives it an edge over its predecessor. These new cores are likely developed by Nuvia engineers, the company acquired by Qualcomm in 2021.
A recently revealed Geekbench benchmark shows that the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 is becoming a formidable competitor to Apple’s M2 chip, with a multi-core score of 9337. This is close to the multi-core score of the MacBook Air (2022, Apple M2 3478 MHz, 8 cores), which is 9795.
However, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4’s single-core performance lags significantly behind Apple’s M2, with a single-core score of 1197. The MacBook Air M2 has a single-core score of 2641.
Despite the gap in single-core performance, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4’s performance in multi-core operations is promising, especially considering that this benchmark was achieved under x86 emulation, not x64.
These benchmark results suggest that Qualcomm is making significant strides in the CPU domain and that Windows 11 on ARM is becoming a more formidable competitor to Apple Silicon.
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