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. A Qualcomm spokesperson clarified that "Snapdragon C's 8 cores operate at different max frequencies to optimize for power [and] performance with 1 core at up to 3GHz, 3 at up to 2.6GHz, and the remaining 4 at up to 2GHz. The maximum sustained frequency across all cores is 2 GHz.."
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
Intel's Core 3 304, the weakest of its "Wildcat Lake" processors for budget systems, has a max performance core turbo frequency of 4.3 GHz and max low-power efficient core frequency of 3.3 GHz..
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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