Qualcomm's Arm Chip Destroys Intel in Pre-Launch Windows Demo

Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite came out ahead of Intel's Meteor Lake in a head-to-head comparison running Windows, shared by YouTuber Erdi Özüağ (via TechPowerUp). The Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 beat the Core 7 Ultra 155H in all four benchmarks that were run, with two wider victories and narrower wins. The results are a good omen for the Snapdragon X Elite, though it's important to note the tests were in a controlled environment and definitely warrant at least a few grains of salt.

The performance demo was conducted at an official Qualcomm event during Mobile World Congress last month, but Özüağ's video seems to be the first time we've seen these benchmarks. Based on the language in the video and the fact that nobody else has disclosed these figures in the two weeks since MWC, we get the sense that maybe Özüağ wasn't supposed to show this stuff publicly — or perhaps Özüağ was just working on the video for the past several days and nobody else found the benchmarks interesting enough to talk about.