Adreno X2-45 vs Adreno X1-45

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Adreno X2-45
Adreno X2
Adreno X1-45
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Adreno X2-45 with 1152 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older Adreno X1-45 that utilizes 3 pipelines and 768 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X1-45 over Adreno X2-45
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-45
  • 86% higher maximum theoretical performance (3.9 vs 2.1 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 50% more shading units (1152 vs 768)

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
Time Spy - 928
Solar Bay - 5990
Fire Strike - 3707
Wild Life Extreme - 3225
Night Raid - 16550
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur - 14.2 img/sec
Face Detection - 6.82 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 0.56 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 0.65 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 0.55 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 0.12 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 26.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 1746.7 FPS
API - OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 349
DirectX 11 - 13 FPS
DirectX 12 - 10 FPS
GPU Compute - 810 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5]634 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Adreno X2-45
No benchmark results yet
Adreno X1-45
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-03-18 (Rennsport)GeekBench9564

Specifications

Technical specifications of Adreno X2-45 and Adreno X1-45

General

Vendor Qualcomm Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released September 25, 2025 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Entry-level Entry-level
Architecture Adreno X2 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Adreno X2 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - - Apple M2 GPU (8-core)
Recommended CPU - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P-64-100) or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P-64-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P-42-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-42-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-46-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (26th and 105th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 500 MHz 280 MHz
Boost Clock 910-1700 MHz (configurable) 1107-1367 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1152 768
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 72 48
Render Output Units (ROPs) 36 24
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 3
Tensor Cores No -
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 33-61 GPixel/s 27-33 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 66-122 GTexel/s 53-66 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
2.1-3.9 TFLOPS
1.7-2.1 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 4 nm
Die Size 220 mm² -

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus 128-bit -
ECC No -
Memory Bandwidth
152 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12.1
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL - 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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