Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
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Note: The information shown below is based on a pre-sample. Technical details or benchmark results may be different in the final version of this processor. |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) | |
CPU comparisonQualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 or Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) - 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 SQ3 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 SQ3 was released in Q3/2022. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) has 12 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) was released in Q2/2024. |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon (102) | Family | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (3) |
| Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ3 (1) | CPU group | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (3) |
| 2 | Generation | 1 |
| Kryo 680 | Architecture | Oryon |
| Mobile | Segment | Mobile |
| -- | Predecessor | -- |
| -- | Successor | -- |
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CPU Cores and Base FrequencyThe Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.00 GHz. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) has 12 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 1.00 GHz (4.20 GHz). |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Characteristic | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) |
| 8 | Cores | 12 |
| 8 | Threads | 12 |
| hybrid (big.LITTLE) | Core architecture | normal |
| No | Hyperthreading | No |
| No | Overclocking ? | No |
| 3.00 GHz 4x Kryo 680 Gold |
A-Core | 1.00 GHz (4.20 GHz) 12x Oryon |
| 2.40 GHz 4x Kryo 680 Silver |
B-Core | -- |
Artificial Intelligence and Machine LearningProcessors 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. |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Characteristic | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) |
| -- | AI hardware | Qualcomm AI engine |
| -- | AI specifications | Qualcomm Hexagon NPU @ 45 TOPS |
Internal GraphicsThe 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. |
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| Qualcomm Adreno 690 | GPU | Qualcomm Adreno X Elite/Plus |
| GPU frequency | 1.20 GHz | |
| -- | GPU (Turbo) | -- |
| 6 | GPU Generation | -- |
| 7 nm | Technology | 4 nm |
| 0 | Max. displays | 4 |
| -- | Compute units | -- |
| -- | Shader | -- |
| No | Hardware Raytracing | No |
| No | Frame Generation | No |
| -- | Max. GPU Memory | -- |
| 12.0 | DirectX Version | 12.2 |
Hardware codec supportA 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. |
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| Qualcomm Adreno 690 | GPU | Qualcomm Adreno X Elite/Plus |
| 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 | Codec VP9 | Decode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec VP8 | Decode |
| No | Codec AV1 | Decode / Encode |
| Decode | Codec AVC | Decode / Encode |
| Decode | Codec VC-1 | Decode / Encode |
| Decode / Encode | Codec JPEG | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 supports a maximum of 16 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Characteristic | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) |
| LPDDR4X-2133 | Memory | LPDDR5X-8533 |
| 16 GB | Max. Memory | 64 GB |
| 8 (Octa Channel) | Memory channels | 8 (Octa Channel) |
| 68.3 GB/s | Max. Bandwidth | 135.2 GB/s |
| No | ECC | No |
| -- | L2 Cache | 42.00 MB |
| -- | L3 Cache | -- |
| -- | PCIe version | 4.0 |
| -- | PCIe lanes | -- |
| -- | PCIe Bandwidth | -- |
Thermal ManagementThe TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has a TDP of --, that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) is 23 W. |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Characteristic | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) |
| -- | TDP (PL1 / PBP) | 23 W |
| -- | TDP (PL2) | -- |
| -- | TDP up | 80 W |
| -- | TDP down | 12 W |
| -- | Tjunction max. | -- |
Technical detailsThe Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) cache has a total of 42.00 MB. |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Characteristic | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) |
| 5 nm | Technology | 4 nm |
| Chiplet | Chip design | Chiplet |
| Armv8-A (64 bit) | Instruction set (ISA) | Armv8-A (64 bit) |
| -- | ISA extensions | -- |
| -- | Socket | -- |
| None | Virtualization | None |
| No | AES-NI | Yes |
| Android, Windows 10 (ARM) | Operating systems | Windows 10/11 (ARM), Linux |
| Q3/2022 | Release date | Q2/2024 |
| -- | Release price | -- |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 3.80 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 3.80 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 3.80 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 3.80 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
Qualcomm Adreno 690 @ 0.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Qualcomm Adreno X Elite/Plus @ 1.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 3.80 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 4.20 GHzNot verified |
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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.
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 3.80 GHzNot verified |
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Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
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. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
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Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz |
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
12C 12T @ 1.00 GHzNot verified |
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Devices using this processor |
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| Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 | Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) |
| Microsoft Surface Pro 9 | Unknown |
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