Qualcomm is working on two new chips, the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus to offer Windows users a reason not to switch to MacBooks with Apple Silicon.

It was previously rumored that the Surface Laptop 6 will use Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chip. In the latest revelation, a mysterious device codenamed “OEMBR OEMBR” (which is claimed to be the Surface Laptop 6) running on the Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 has emerged on GeekBench listing.

For those unaware, the “X Elite” chip has three different versions – X1E-84-100, X1E-80-100, and X1E-78-100. These are mostly similar with slight differences in CPU and GPU frequencies.

A total of four test results of the Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 on the alleged Surface Laptop 6 have been revealed. The single and multi-core scores are as follows

As you can see from the images, the device scored around 2700 and 14000 in single and multi-core tests respectively. The listing notes that the power plan was set to “Balanced”. So with proper cooling, it may go even higher. However, we don’t really know what was the exact setup for performing the tests, where factors such as cooling or just ambient temp can influence the result. So it’s better not to keep high hopes for the performance mode.

Based on the numbers we can see representing the Surface Laptop 6, it could be able to Apple MacBook Pro with M3 Pro chip.

The listing shows the CPU as “snapdragon (1m) 8cx gen 3”, which is reportedly an anti-leak measure. Microsoft has reportedly done it before. Windows Latest claims the chip to be the Snapdragon X Elite. The model number of the device was previously known to be associated with the Surface Laptop 6. The Snapdragon X Elite is equipped with 12 Qualcomm Oryon CPU cores and the device comes with 16GB RAM.

Microsoft has previously launched the Business edition of the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 with Intel Core Ultra 5 and Core Ultra 7 chips.

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