GoKawiilQualcomm is getting into some of the nitty-gritty details of the Snapdragon C system-on-a-chip, the ARM-based platform it announced in June for laptops priced around $300.
The Snapdragon C is an 8-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU, with a single-core max frequency of 3 GHz and a multi-core max of 2 GHz. (In the fine print, Qualcomm claims you can get four cores at 2.0 GHz and three cores at 2.6 GHz, but doesn't note all eight cores simultaneously. We've reached out to Qualcomm for clarification. There is 2MB of total cache.
It also has an integrated Adreno GPU with a max frequency of 900 MHz, and a Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, though Qualcomm hasn't listed how many TOPS it supports.
Swipe to scroll horizontally Qualcomm Snapdragon C Header Cell - Column 1 CPU 8-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU Single-core max frequency 3.0 GHz Multi-core max frequnecy 2.0 GHz Total cache 2 MB GPU Qualcomm Adreno GPU (integrated) NPU Qualcomm Hexagon, no TOPS metric specified Memory support Up to 16GB LPDDR5/5x or LPDDR4x Storage PCIe 3.0 NVMe, UFS 2.2/3.1 Wi-Fi Qualcomm FastConnect C6700 (up to Wi-Fi 6/6E) USB Up to USB 3.1, up to 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A
In updated slides, Qualcomm pits the Snapdragon C (in a reference design with 8GB of memory) against an Acer TravelMate with Intel's N250 and 8GB of RAM. The company claims you get 67% better battery performance than the Intel N250 and up to 2.1 times better battery efficiency, though that's measured with multi-threaded Cinebench. The company did not publish any benchmarks when the systems are plugged in.
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Qualcomm claims that, on battery, the Snapdragon C is up to 44% faster in single-threaded Geekbench and 24% higher in multi-core. But its top victories were in Cinebench, running 50% faster single-threaded and 67% faster multi-threaded. But Geekbench and Speedometer 3.1 (+39%) are the real numbers to look at here, as they better showcase the type of work someone might typically do with a cheap notebook.
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