Qualcomm’s latest platform for ultrabooks, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 has been spotted testing in the Geekbench 5 database showing promising numbers. Running on a supposed successor to the Surface Pro X, the chip managed to achieve scores that put it very close to 11th generation Intel Tiger Lake chips, thus suggesting a marked evolution over its predecessor.
Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 ties with i7 1165G7 in leaked test
found by website WinFuture, the test belongs to a device identified as OEMVL Product Name EV2, a name that refers to other test devices used by Microsoft during the development of models of the Surface line. Given this, the portal believes that the device in question is a successor to the Surface Pro X, currently equipped with a variant of the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2, or an ARM version of the Surface Laptop.
The device’s processing is the responsibility of the new Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, identified with 8 cores running at up to 3.0 GHz, accompanied by 16 GB of RAM. The combination reaches 1,005 points in single-core and 5,574 points in multi-core, results that practically place it on a level close to chips from Intel and AMD.
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A very respectable example is the Core i7 1165G7, the flagship chip of the 11th generation Tiger Lake that powered most ultrabooks based on the Santa Clara giant’s solutions last year. On an Intel NUC 11 Performance, mini PC with access to a good cooling system, the component scores 1,568 points in multi-core and 5,299 points in single-core.
Even though it loses by almost 60% when using a single core, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 has basically identical performance when working with all cores. Although it doesn’t seem like a good result, especially when it comes to single-core performance, the numbers show a great improvement compared to the previous generation, which scored 800 points in single-core and 3,100 in multi-core, on average – the improvements are of 26% and 80%, respectively.
It is also worth remembering that Qualcomm has already confirmed that it is working to bring custom cores from Nuvia, a company acquired by the giant last year made up of former engineers from Apple, AMD and Intel, to the Snapdragon line, a point that gains more prominence in the face of the evolution of Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, still based on common ARM cores.
Chip promises to be up to 85% better than previous generation
Announced in December 2021, during the Snapdragon Tech Summit, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 arrived promising to shake up the Windows On ARM market thanks to significant changes made to the chip architecture and a greater focus on Artificial Intelligence. Unlike its predecessor, the platform is equipped only with high performance cores, 4 Cortex-X1 maximum performance at up to 3.0 GHz and 4 Cortex-A78 high performance at up to 2.4 GHz.
The solution also has 14 MB of L3 cache, separated into 8 MB for the cores and 6 MB for the system, and supports LPDDR4X memories at 4,266 MT/s distributed in up to 8 channels. The manufacture is in charge of Samsung, with the 5nm 5LPE process, same used in the Snapdragon 888 and Exynos 2100.
According to Qualcomm, the changes would make the solution deliver up to 85% more performance than the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2, a promise reinforced by the leaked test, up to 60% better performance in graphics processing, in addition to a huge gain in efficiency, capable of making notebooks equipped with component deliver multi-day autonomy. At the moment, there is still no information about any devices equipped with the chip.
