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Adreno X1-45 vs Adreno X1-85

Adreno X1-45
VS
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1-45
Adreno X1
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Adreno X1-45 with 3 pipelines and 768 shaders against the Adreno X1-85 that utilizes 6 pipelines and 1536 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AI
  5. Specs
  6. Comments

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-85 over Adreno X1-45
Reasons to consider the Adreno X1-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 91%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (4.6 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
  • Achieves 2.5x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (24K vs 9K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (1536 vs 768)
GPU
Adreno X1-45
vs
Adreno X1-85

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Adreno X1-45
1083
Adreno X1-85 +91%
2067
Time Spy 928 1695
Solar Bay 5990 10596
Fire Strike 3707 6134
Wild Life Extreme 3225 6152
Night Raid 16550 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Adreno X1-45
9947
Adreno X1-85 +145%
24387
Background Blur 14.2 img/sec 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection 6.82 img/sec 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 0.56 Gpixels/sec 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 0.65 Gpixels/sec 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 0.55 Gpixels/sec 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.12 Gpixels/sec 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 26.6 Gpixels/sec 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 1746.7 FPS 4692.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Adreno X1-45
1903
Adreno X1-85 +57%
2981
G2D Mark 348 518
DirectX 11 13 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 10 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 807 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 696 & 7 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Adreno X1-45
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-03-18 (Rennsport)Geekbench 6 OpenCL9564
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Adreno X1-85
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Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) - 1347
Image Segmentation (HP) - 2661
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 3084
Face Detection (HP) - 5354
Pose Estimation (Q) - 7719
Text Classification (SP) - 292
Machine Translation (HP) - 1108
Object Detection (SP) - 660
Depth Estimation (Q) - 3876
Style Transfer (SP) - 12048
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Adreno X1-45 and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Qualcomm Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released October 24, 2023 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Adreno X1 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Adreno X1 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Apple M2 GPU (8-core) - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100)		 - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-66-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-84-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (107th and 113th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 280 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1107-1367 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 768 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 48 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 24 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 3 6
Ray-tracing Cores - No
L1 Cache 192KB per cluster 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache 1MB shared 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 27-33 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 53-66 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Adreno X1-45
1.7-2.1 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85 +119%
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP - 30 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared

API

DirectX 12.1 12.1
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 3.2 3.2
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 1.4 1.4

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Total votes: 19

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