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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

70 out of 100
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
VS
60 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.8 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) with 12-cores against the 4.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments (1)

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7940HS and (X1E-84-100)
Advantages of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 10 months later
  • 17% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2880 vs 2469 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • 24% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.2 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
vs
Ryzen 9 7940HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (105th and 172nd place)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1150 MB/sec 962.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 144.9 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 338.7 pages/sec 211.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 416.5 Mpixels/sec 326.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 268.6 pages/sec 260.3 pages/sec
Background blur 67.7 images/sec 53.8 images/sec
Photo processing 117.6 images/sec 87.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 25 Mpixels/sec 22.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 10 & 569 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 71.9 GOps/sec 102.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 106.9 GOps/sec 62.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 301M Primes/sec 90M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 34M Strings/sec 42.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 16.2 GBytes/sec 21.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 219.6 MBytes/sec 360.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 1748 Frames/sec 1427 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 16.4B Matrices/sec 27.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 21 & 2780 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 34.9 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 434.6 PPW 215.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 708.8 PPW 551.5 PPW
Blender / Watt - 4.18 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Eggburt)Cinebench 2024127 / 794
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AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-09 (chrisg)Cinebench 2024105 / 873
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-19 (Phillywilly2000)Cinebench 2024102 / 906
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-14 (GlancingOcean)Cinebench 202470 / 677
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-13 (antoooooo)Cinebench 2024109 / 1009
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-08 (沧桷)GeekBench2614 / 12911
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

General

Vendor Qualcomm Amd
Released October 24, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Codename Snapdragon X Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number X1E-84-100 -
Integrated GPU Qualcomm Adreno X1 Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - Apple M3 Pro - Intel Core i9 13900H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#66th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 12 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.8 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.2 GHz 5.2 GHz
Total
Total Cores 12 8
Total Threads 12 16
Bus Frequency - 100 MHz
Multiplier 38x 40x
L1 Cache - 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 12MB (shared) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache - 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35 W 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 80 W -
Socket Custom FP8
Peak Temperature - 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (52nd and 105th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Qualcomm Adreno X1 Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1500 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1536 768
TMUs 96 48
ROPs 48 32
Execution Units 6 12
TGP 30 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to Adreno X1-85

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5x-8448 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 8 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 135 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100) official page AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 12 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 9 7940HS:
    - DDR5 memory is supported only on the FP7r2 socket, while FP7 and FP8 sockets support LPDDR5/x.
    - ECC support is available exclusively on the FP7r2 socket.

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS or Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)?
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Marko June 4, 2024 at 02:39 PM
They both pull about 80W at max, and perform about the same. Snapdragon is only catching up, not that exciting. Though, I'm interested to see the efficiency at base clock.
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