Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus 8-core analysis - The X1P-42-100 is smaller and cheaper, but not very efficient

[Redaktion]

Just over two months after the launch of the Snapdragon X Elite processors and the 10-core Snapdragon X Plus, Qualcomm has now released further ARM processors for laptops, including the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core variants with slower GPUs. We have tested the cheaper X1P-42-100.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Plus-8-core-analysis-The-X1P-42-100-is-smaller-and-cheaper-but-not-very-efficient.883714.0.html

[mmc88]

only fast performance cores are used for their processor cores because the efficiency cores of the more expensive models have been completely dispensed with

What efficiency cores? As far as I know the X Elite has 12 identical cores. There are no efficiency cores. Literally can't find anything about this elsewhere on the internet as well. Care to elaborate?

[Mr Majestyk]

Feel a bit sorry for Qualcomm, they will be forgotten immediately Lunar Lake launches and next year they are up against Mediatek and Nvidia tag-team. Between Strix and Lunar Lake they will have to slash prices even further.

[asdd]

Witcher seems like the worst test? It's not native for both ARM platforms?

[Jean Claude]

I got a Yoga 7 slim with the smallest X elite. Fantastic machine to work with, not much use to game but I don't so who cares...

[werjj]

I got a Yoga 7 slim with the smallest X elite. Fantastic machine to work with, not much use to game but I don't so who cares...

Yep. Opinions of actual users are usually completely different from opinions of local "experts" running 2020 (at best) hardware.