Qualcomm Claims Snapdragon C Crushes Intel N250 On Battery Power
Qualcomm has finally detailed the specifications and performance metrics for its entry-tier Snapdragon C platform, setting its sights directly on the budget laptop market and $300 Windows PCs.
Targeted at students, families, small businesses, and frontline workers, Snapdragon C aims to establish a new performance benchmark for entry-level devices. Under the hood, the 6nm chip features an 8-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU reaching up to 3GHz on a single core and 2GHz across multi-core workloads, supported by 2MB of cache.
There's also an integrated Adreno A643 GPU operating at up to 900MHz with DirectX 12 support, alongside a dedicated Hexagon NPU to handle the AI stuff. It supports up to 16GB of LPDDR5/5X or LPDDR4X RAM, PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage, and Wi-Fi 6/6E with Bluetooth 6.0 via Qualcomm's FastConnect C6700.
To highlight the processor's capabilities, Qualcomm released battery-powered performance numbers comparing a Snapdragon C reference system against an Intel N250-powered...
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