It is June 18 and the embargo has finally ended. Many stores have shared reviews of Snapdragon X Elite laptops aka Copilot+ PCs. Currently, the Asus Vivobook S15 has been reviewed which includes the third SKU (X1E-78-100) of the Snapdragon X series. Here are the key findings and insights we found about the Snapdragon X Elite's performance and battery life.
Snapdragon X Elite Review after 2 months: Laptop Revolution!
For the past few months, Qualcomm has been claiming that the Snapdragon X Elite's Nuvia-designed Oryon CPU cores perform on par with the Apple M3, and it's proven to be true.
Dave2D in his YouTube video showed that the Asus Vivobook S15, powered by the Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100), outperforms the MacBook Air M3 in multi-core tests on Geekbench and Cinebench. Not only that, it also outperforms Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS.
Tom's Guide also says that in the multi-core Geekbench test, the Snapdragon X Elite outperforms the base Apple M3. In the single-core test, however, the Apple M3 is about 28% faster than the X Elite running at 3.4GHz.
