Intel and AMD may have been the two most dominant forces in PC processors in recent years, but they’re far from the only options now, even when it comes to running Windows. Qualcomm just proved that point with force, showing that its new Snapdragon X Elite CPUs are over 50% faster than the latest Intel Core Ultra chips in some tests.
The battle for the best gaming CPU could be about to get a lot more interesting with the arrival of laptops and other systems based on Qualcomm’s new processors, if Qualcomm’s benchmark claims are truly representative. AMD and Intel might be ruling the roost right now, but there’s no guarantee that will last forever.
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