Qualcomm Says Snapdragon 8 Elite Phone Chip Smokes An Intel Lunar Lake Laptop

Qualcomm just revealed its shiny new mobile processor at the Snapdragon Summit, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first smartphone chip to feature the company's Oryon CPU architecture, which debuted earlier this year in the Snapdragon X Elite laptop processor. Qualcomm says it rearchitected Oryon to be efficient enough for smartphones, but that process didn't involve leaving performance on the table. In a demo at the event, Qualcomm showed the Snapdragon 8 Elite beating an Intel Lunar Lake chip, while the laptop was running on battery power. And it wasn't even close.

The machines were compared in the Geekbench 6 CPU test, which is a synthetic benchmark widely used to compare processors. In both single-core and multi-core tests, the Qualcomm-based phone processor runs away with it. The Snapdragon scores 3,209 (single-threaded) and 10,205 (multi-threaded). Meanwhile, the Lunar Lake-powered laptop in Qualcomm ...