Qualcomm counters Intel about its performance claims

In nan twelvemonth since Qualcomm first debuted its Snapdragon X Elite, nan title hasn’t been silent. Intel released some Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake chips, nan second of which felt for illustration a morganatic consequence to Qualcomm’s advances successful artillery life and efficiency.

But Qualcomm isn’t impressed by Intel’s latest offerings.

Qualcomm doesn’t person caller PC chips to denote astatine its yearly acme — instead, nan institution spent immoderate clip pinch journalists pointing retired that immoderate of nan claims made by Intel are leaving retired immoderate important details.

Qualcomm has 2 main criticisms of really Intel has talked astir its caller Lunar Lake aliases Core Ultra Series 2 chips. First, that Intel has near disconnected from its nonstop comparisons Qualcomm’s highest configuration, nan X1E-84-100. Instead, Intel relies connected nan X1E-80-100 and X1E-78-100 successful its comparisons. According to nan numbers Qualcomm presented, arsenic you tin spot successful nan chart below, leaving retired nan X1E-84-100 allows Intel to return nan lead successful immoderate capacity benchmarks. The different flimsy wrinkle, according to Qualcomm, successful Intel’s trading is that its ain highest-end configuration, nan Core Ultra 9 288V, isn’t yet disposable successful retailers. That telephone into mobility Intel’s declare that these are “the fastest cores.”

The larger argument, of course, is that Qualcomm’s portion still offers amended powerfulness efficiency. In particular, Qualcomm calls retired nan truth that Lunar Lake chips devour 38% much powerfulness astatine highest performance.

Of course, capacity wasn’t Intel’s biggest declare pinch nan Core Ultra Series 2. It was each astir artillery life. And successful my ain testing, I was thoroughly impressed by conscionable really agelong these laptops last, particularly successful nan astir demanding workloads. For now, it takes nan crown successful position of artillery life.

Qualcomm doesn’t conflict Intel’s eager claims, but notes that Intel isn’t telling nan full story. As we learned successful our ain testing, Core Ultra Series 2 chips don’t execute good connected battery, which is simply a spot of Arm chips, including some Snapdragon X Elite chips and Apple Silicon. Qualcomm shows that crossed nan board, Intel’s latest chips person a superior dip successful capacity while connected battery, dropping arsenic overmuch arsenic 54% successful immoderate tests.

To beryllium fair, this has ever been existent of Intel’s chips, but Qualcomm has a point. As agelong arsenic Intel’s artillery life is, it’s existent that you’re losing a coagulated magnitude of performance. That’s not existent pinch nan Snapdragon X Elite.

For astir people, however, they conscionable mightiness take nan other hours of artillery life complete immoderate performance. Let’s not forget: we’re talking astir small, thin-and-light laptops — not high-performance machines. That calculation mightiness alteration successful larger, much powerful laptops. But correct now, Intel’s attraction connected artillery life feels for illustration nan correct prime — moreover if it was being a spot misleading erstwhile comparing against Qualcomm.