Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 3rd Gen is at par with Intel Tiger Lake

Novel processors Snapdragon 8CX third generation of Qualcomm have appeared in Geekbench 5, revealing the excellent performance that will deliver under the ARM architecture and that will give life to those computers with Windows 10 ARM.

Performance results are quite promising, considering that manages to obtain results at the height of the CPUs Tiger Lake of Intel notebook on charges of multithreaded work.

Qualcomm takes the use of Snapdragon 8cx processors under Windows 10 computers seriously, so each generation increases performance, making these laptops more and more interesting.

Performance results on Geekbench

CPU	SINGLE-CORE	MULTI-CORE	CORES / THREADS, UARCH	CACHE	CLOCK	TDP
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 *	982	4.918	4C Kryo Gold + + 4C Kryo Gold	? MB	2.69 GHz	?
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2	795	3,050	4C Kryo 495 Gold + 4C Kryo 495 Silver	? MB	3.15 GHz + 2.42 GHz	7W
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 1	725	2,884	4C Kryo 495 Gold + 4C Kryo 495 Silver	? MB	2.84 GHz + 1.80 GHz	7W
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS	1,540	8,225	8C / 16T, Zen 3	16MB	3.30 ~ 4.53 GHz	35W
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H	1,230	7,125	8C / 16T, Zen 2	8MB	3.30 ~ 4.44 GHz	35 ~ 54W
Intel Core i7-1160G7	1,400	5,000	4C / 8T, Willow Cove	12MB	2.10 ~ 4.40 GHz	15W
Intel Core i7-1185G7	1,550	5,600	4C / 8T, Willow Cove	12MB	3.0 ~ 4.80 GHz	28W
Apple M1	1,710	7,660	4C Firestorm + 4C Icestorm	12MB + 4MB	3.20 GHz	20 ~ 24W

The third generation of Snapdragon 8cx SoCs is going to receive some changes at the architectural level. The most important is the elimination of those low-power cores. Now, these SoCs are expected to have 8 high-performance cores that will run at different clock speeds. This should increase overall performance over early 8cx generations. What is not confirmed is whether the electricity consumption would continue to be 7 W or if this value will increase.

The results were recently discovered on a Qualcomm Reference Platform (QRD). QRD platforms are intended for hardware and software developers, so performance often differs from final products.