Intel Core i5-1035G4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1

Last updated: 2024-04-16

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Core i5-1035G4		Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
CPU comparison Intel Core i5-1035G4 or Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Intel Core i5-1035G4 has 4 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.70 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-1035G4 was released in Q3/2019. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. The CPU supports up to 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 was released in Q3/2019.

Intel Core i5 (331)	Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)
Intel Core i 1000G/10000U (19)	CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ1/SQ2 (2)
10	Generation	1
Ice Lake U	Architecture	Kryo 495
Mobile	Segment	Mobile
--	Predecessor	--
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Core i5-1035G4 has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-1035G4 is 1.10 GHz (3.70 GHz) while the Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 is at 3.00 GHz.
Intel Core i5-1035G4	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
4	Cores	8
8	Threads	8
normal	Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Yes	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	No
1.10 GHz (3.70 GHz)	A-Core	3.00 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Gold
--	B-Core	1.80 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Silver
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Intel Core i5-1035G4	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The Intel Core i5-1035G4 or Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4	GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 685
0.30 GHz	GPU frequency	0.25 GHz
1.05 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	0.65 GHz
11	GPU Generation	5
14 nm	Technology	7 nm
3	Max. displays	2
48	Compute units	8
384	Shader	1536
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
32 GB	Max. GPU Memory	4 GB
12	DirectX Version	12.0

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4	GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 685
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP9	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	Decode / Encode
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	Decode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe The Intel Core i5-1035G4 can use up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 59.6 GB/s. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 supports up to 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 34.1 GB/s.
Intel Core i5-1035G4	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
LPDDR4-3733, DDR4-3200	Memory	LPDDR4X-4266
64 GB	Max. Memory	16 GB
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	8 (Octa Channel)
59.6 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	34.1 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	--
6.00 MB	L3 Cache	2.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	--
16	PCIe lanes	--
15.8 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	--
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Core i5-1035G4 is 15 W, while the Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has a TDP of 7 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Intel Core i5-1035G4	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	7 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
25 W	TDP up	--
12 W	TDP down	--
100 °C	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The Intel Core i5-1035G4 is manufactured in 10 nm and has 6.00 MB cache. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 is manufactured in 7 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.
Intel Core i5-1035G4	Characteristic	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
10 nm	Technology	7 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	ISA extensions	--
BGA 1526	Socket	--
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	None
Yes	AES-NI	No
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Operating systems	Android, Windows 10 (ARM)
Q3/2019	Release date	Q3/2019
295 $	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core i5-1035G4 (100%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 (65%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core i5-1035G4 (100%)

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 (82%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1116 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	724 (65%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	3420 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	2808 (82%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 Intel Iris Plus Graphics G4 @ 1.05 GHz	806 (40%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 Qualcomm Adreno 685 @ 0.65 GHz	2030 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	45 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	0 (0%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	200 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1092 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	4332 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	1283 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	3760 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	434 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	1595 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	8050 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 1.10 GHz	1700 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz	172 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-1035G4 4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz	657 (100%)
	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Intel Core i5-1035G4	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1
Unknown	Microsoft Surface X

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