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Adreno X2-85 vs Adreno X1-85

Adreno X2-85
VS
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X2-85
Adreno X2
Adreno X1-85
Adreno X1

We compared two integrated laptop GPUs: the Adreno X2-85 with 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months older 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 X2-85
Reasons to consider the Adreno X2-85
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 52% higher maximum theoretical performance (7 vs 4.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
  • Has 33% more shading units (2048 vs 1536)
GPU
Adreno X2-85
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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 X2-85 +61%
3331
Adreno X1-85
2067
Time Spy 1403 1695
Solar Bay 14961 10596
Port Royal 735 -
Fire Strike 7510 6134
Wild Life Extreme 6989 6152
Night Raid 24606 28868
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
Background Blur - 36.4 img/sec
Face Detection - 17.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 1.19 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 1.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 0.3 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 72.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 4692.5 FPS
API - OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
Adreno X2-85 +96%
5855
Adreno X1-85
2981
G2D Mark 655 518
DirectX 11 45 FPS 19 FPS
DirectX 12 23 FPS 10 FPS
GPU Compute 2523 Ops/s 1958 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 20 & 7 samples
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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], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Adreno X2-85 and Adreno X1-85

General

Vendor Qualcomm Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released September 25, 2025 October 24, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Generic Generic
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture Adreno X2 Adreno X1
GPU Codename Adreno X2 Adreno X1
Rival Equivalent - Apple M4 Max GPU (32-core) - Apple M4 GPU (10-Core)
Successor - - Adreno X2-90
Recommended CPU - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100) or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) or above
Used in CPUs - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-84-100) - 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 (50th and 111th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 500 MHz 300 MHz
Boost Clock 1350-1700 MHz (configurable) 1200-1500 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 2048 1536
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 12 6
Tensor Cores No -
Ray-tracing Cores - No
L1 Cache - 192KB per cluster
L2 Cache - 1MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 86-109 GPixel/s 58-72 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 173-218 GTexel/s 115-144 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
Adreno X2-85 +52%
5.5-7 TFLOPS
Adreno X1-85
3.7-4.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface IGP IGP
TGP - 30 W
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
Adreno X2-85
152 GB/s
Adreno X1-85
n/a

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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