Nvidia N1X (48SM) vs Adreno X2-90

We compared two integrated laptop graphics cards: the Nvidia N1X (48SM) with 48 pipelines and 6144 shaders against the 9 months older Adreno X2-90 that utilizes 12 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1X (48SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of Adreno X2-90 over N1X (48SM)
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1X (48SM)
  • 3.9x higher maximum theoretical performance (29.7 vs 7.6 TFLOPS)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 3x more shading units (6144 vs 2048)
  • Has 20% higher memory bandwidth: 273.2 vs 228 GB/s
  • Features 192 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

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 - 3644
Solar Bay - 24178
Port Royal - 1578
Fire Strike - 10109
Wild Life Extreme - 10017
Night Raid - 57060
Sources: 3DMark [1]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
G2D Mark - 604
DirectX 11 - 58 FPS
DirectX 12 - 30 FPS
GPU Compute - 3552 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5] – 76 samples

Specifications

Technical specifications of Nvidia N1X (48SM) and Adreno X2-90

General

Vendor Nvidia Qualcomm
Build Integrated Integrated
Released June 1, 2026 September 25, 2025
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Professional Generic
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell (N1x) Adreno X2
GPU Codename GB20B Adreno X2
Rival Equivalent - Apple M5 Max GPU (40-core) - Apple M4 Max GPU (40-core)
Recommended CPU - Nvidia RTX Spark N1X (20-Core) or above - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) or above
Used in CPUs - - Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-90-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-88-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100)
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100)
Laptop GPU ranking (#36th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1665 MHz 500 MHz
Boost Clock 2418 MHz 1700-1850 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 6144 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 48 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 12
Tensor Cores 192 No
Ray-tracing Cores 48 -
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster -
L2 Cache 24MB shared -
Instructions Per Cycle 2 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 116 GPixel/s 109-118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 464 GTexel/s 218-237 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
N1X (48SM) +291%
29.7 TFLOPS
7-7.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 IGP
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 3 nm 3 nm
Die Size 173.6 mm² 220 mm²

Memory

Memory Type System Shared System Shared
Bus 256-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
N1X (48SM) +20%
273.2 GB/s
228 GB/s

API

DirectX - 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
CUDA 12.1 No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS DLSS 4 No
DisplayPort - 1.4

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