Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 vs Intel Core i9-10980XE

Last updated: 2023-11-07

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1		Intel Core i9-10980XE
CPU comparison Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 or Intel Core i9-10980XE - 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 Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.00 GHz. Up to 16 GB of memory is supported in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 was released in Q3/2019. The Intel Core i9-10980XE has 18 cores with 36 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.80 GHz. The CPU supports up to 256 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The Intel Core i9-10980XE was released in Q4/2019.

Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)	Family	Intel Core i9 (78)
Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ1/SQ2 (2)	CPU group	Intel Core i 10000X (4)
1	Generation	10
Kryo 495	Architecture	Cascade Lake
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	Intel Core i9-9980XE
--	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz. The Intel Core i9-10980XE has 18 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz (4.80 GHz).
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1	Characteristic	Intel Core i9-10980XE
8	Cores	18
8	Threads	36
hybrid (big.LITTLE)	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	Yes
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
3.00 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Gold	A-Core	3.00 GHz (4.80 GHz)
1.80 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Silver	B-Core	--
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.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1	Characteristic	Intel Core i9-10980XE
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
Qualcomm Adreno 685	GPU	no iGPU
0.25 GHz	GPU frequency	--
0.65 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
5	GPU Generation	--
7 nm	Technology
2	Max. displays
8	Compute units	--
1536	Shader	--
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
4 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
12.0	DirectX Version	--

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.
Qualcomm Adreno 685	GPU	no iGPU
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	No
Decode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Intel Core i9-10980XE can connect up to 256 GB of memory in 4 memory channels.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1	Characteristic	Intel Core i9-10980XE
LPDDR4X-4266	Memory	DDR4-2933
16 GB	Max. Memory	256 GB
8 (Octa Channel)	Memory channels	4 (Quad Channel)
34.1 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	93.8 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	--
2.00 MB	L3 Cache	24.75 MB
--	PCIe version	3.0
--	PCIe lanes	48
--	PCIe Bandwidth	47.3 GB/s
Thermal Management The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has a TDP of 7 W, that of the Intel Core i9-10980XE is 165 W.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1	Characteristic	Intel Core i9-10980XE
7 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	165 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	86 °C
Technical details The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 has a 2.00 MB cache, while the Intel Core i9-10980XE cache has a total of 24.75 MB.
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1	Characteristic	Intel Core i9-10980XE
7 nm	Technology	14 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
--	ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
--	Socket	LGA 2066
None	Virtualization	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No	AES-NI	Yes
Android, Windows 10 (ARM)	Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2019	Release date	Q4/2019
--	Release price	979 $

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 (62%)

Intel Core i9-10980XE (100%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 (18%)

Intel Core i9-10980XE (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	724 (62%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	1174 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	2808 (18%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	15841 (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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	45 (100%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	200 (100%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	0 (0%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	1191 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	24309 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	1573 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	11836 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	480 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	8848 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 Qualcomm Adreno 685 @ 0.65 GHz	2030 (100%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE @ 0.00 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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	33095 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	74.9 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 3.00 GHz	9733 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.80 GHz	211 (100%)

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.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i9-10980XE 18C 36T @ 4.30 GHz	3800 (100%)

Devices using this processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1	Intel Core i9-10980XE
Microsoft Surface X	Unknown

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