Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) vs Apple M2

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) with 10-cores against the 3.5 GHz Apple M2 with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

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
NanoReview Final Score
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between M2 and (X1P-64-100)
Advantages of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
  • Supports up to 64 GB LPDDR5X-8448 RAM
  • Newer - released 1 year and 11 months later
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 5 nanometers
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Around 32.8 GB/s (32%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • More powerful Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 integrated graphics: 3.7 vs 2.9 TFLOPS

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#193rd place)

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 1090 MB/sec 1130 MB/sec
Clang compilation 119.5 Klines/sec 80.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 337.1 pages/sec 235.3 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 376.7 Mpixels/sec 266.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 227 pages/sec 257.4 pages/sec
Background blur 58.2 images/sec 42.1 images/sec
Photo processing 112.1 images/sec 107 images/sec
Ray tracing 19.9 Mpixels/sec 10.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 465 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 53.6 GOps/sec 37 GOps/sec
Floating point math 81.3 GOps/sec 37.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 266M Primes/sec 174M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 30.9M Strings/sec 23.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 13.1 GBytes/sec 9.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 210.7 MBytes/sec 185.8 MBytes/sec
Physics 1789 Frames/sec 1667 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 14.5B Matrices/sec 7.8B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 181 & 4611 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 24.4 PPW 32.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 380.1 PPW 562.3 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 611.4 PPW 869.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.31 PPW 6.07 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 Plus (X1P-64-100)
No benchmark results yet
Apple M2
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-14 (T)GeekBench2647 / 10245
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-05 (AR)GeekBench2655 / 10211
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Shivam)GeekBench2619 / 9900

Specifications

Full technical specification of Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) and Apple M2

General

Vendor Qualcomm Apple
Released April 24, 2024 June 6, 2022
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv9 ARMv8
Codename Snapdragon X Apple M2
Model number X1P-64-100 -
Integrated GPU Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 Apple M2 GPU
Rival Equivalent - Apple M3 -
Successor - - Apple M5 (10-Core)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 10 4
P-Threads 10 4
Base Frequency (P) 3.4 GHz 3.5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores - 4
E-Threads - 4
Base Frequency (E) - 2.4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 10 8
Total Threads 10 8
Bus Frequency 100 MHz -
Multiplier 34x -
L1 Cache 288K (per core) 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 12MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
L3 Cache 6MB (shared) -
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 20 billions
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 35 W 18 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 45 W -
Socket Custom Apple M-Socket
Die Size 172.7 mmΒ² -
Laptop processors ranking (112th and 133rd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 Apple M2 GPU
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 500 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1250 MHz 1398 MHz
Shading Units 1536 1024
TMUs 96 64
ROPs 48 32
Execution Units 6 128
TGP 30 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS
2.9 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5X-8448 - LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 64 GB 24 GB
Memory Channels 2 8
Max. Memory Bandwidth 135.2 GB/s 102.4 GB/s
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) official page -
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 12 -

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