Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 3.6 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) with 18-cores against the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with 12-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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 370 and (X2E-94-100)
Advantages of Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100)
  • Newer - released 1 year and 4 months later
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • More powerful Adreno X2-90 integrated graphics: 7.6 vs 5.9 TFLOPS
  • 23% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3662 vs 2985 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
  • Has 15 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • 9% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.7 GHz)

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 2026 (Single) - 475
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 7218 5200
Cinebench Scores (52nd and 103rd 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 1950 MB/sec 1340 MB/sec
Clang compilation 224 Klines/sec 139.9 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 540.6 pages/sec 335.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 611.3 Mpixels/sec 468.2 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 312.9 pages/sec 322.1 pages/sec
Background blur 76.5 images/sec 63.8 images/sec
Photo processing 195.9 images/sec 124.6 images/sec
Ray tracing 38.6 Mpixels/sec 33.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 3 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math - 122.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math - 76.4 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers - 127M Primes/sec
Random string sorting - 48.3M Strings/sec
Data encryption - 22.1 GBytes/sec
Data compression - 442.7 MBytes/sec
Physics - 1881 Frames/sec
Extended instructions - 31.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3] – 3074 samples

Blender

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

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt - 23 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt - 295.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt - 647.4 PPW
Blender / Watt - 5.21 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 X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100)
No benchmark results yet
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-26 (Nvdya)Cinebench 2024114 / 1135
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Peterr)Cinebench 2024117 / 962
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-18 (Rennsport)Geekbench 6 CPU2904 / 15532
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-18 (Asus Tuf FA608WI)Cinebench 2024104 / 1050
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-15 (Urxelix)Cinebench 2024116 / 1217

Specifications

Full technical specification of Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

General

Vendor Qualcomm Amd
Released September 25, 2025 June 3, 2024
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv9 x86-64
Codename Snapdragon X Zen 5 (Strix Point)
Model number X2-94-100 370
Integrated GPU Adreno X2-90 Radeon 890M
Rival Equivalent - Apple M4 (10-Core) - Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#31st place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 18 4
P-Threads 18 8
Base Frequency (P) 3.6 GHz 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.7 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores - 8
E-Threads - 16
Base Frequency (E) - 2.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) - 3.3 GHz
Total
Total Cores 18 12
Total Threads 18 24
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 36x 20x
L1 Cache 288K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 16MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 9MB (shared) 24MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) - 15-54 W (configurable)
Socket Custom FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Die Size 220 mmΒ² -
Laptop processors ranking (12th and 43rd place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Adreno X2-90 AMD Radeon 890M
GPU Base Clock 500 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1850 MHz 2900 MHz
Shading Units 2048 1024
TMUs 128 64
ROPs 64 32
Execution Units 12 16
TGP - 15 W
iGPU FLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5X-9523 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-8000
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 10 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 228 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) official page AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 12 16

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Total votes: 3

Comments

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