hey everyone Marc Hockman here from PC world we're getting the first look at
the performance numbers for the qualcomm snapdragon 8c X so the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 8c X was introduced last December at Qualcomm's tech summit in
Hawaii but now here at Computex we're getting the first look at what this
processor could actually deliver so what you're looking at right now is project
limitless it sounds like a codename but we're understanding that it's going to
be an actual product that lenovo should probably ship in 2020 it actually has an
8 CX inside and there's two aspects to it that we're concerned with first of
course is the actual performance of the processor the second is the fact that
it's running on a quote/unquote live 5g network here in Taipei but really what
we're interested in is actually what the numbers are going to deliver so we've
had a couple of generations of Snapdragon processors already the last
one being the 850 I can tell you from personal experience it actually is quite
confident in terms of running office apps and general web browsing but the
question has always been how does it compare to a core i5 so right now we
have some number so Qualcomm has actually run these numbers we have to
say that they've provided these benchmarks they've run these numbers
themselves however I think we can go ahead and trust them on this so the
numbers that we're comparing against are the hcx versus a Core i5
8250 you that's the KB like our generation we're not seeing any whiskey
lake or amber Lake numbers here they tell us they're about comparable so we
have to take them take that at face value so what we're running is both PC
mark 10 the and a new application benchmark this is actually a benchmark
that covers the office apps Excel Word age and so forth and what we're
reporting or what call comes reporting is this actually giving numbers of 40 39
4039 to 4139 that's a tad above what the core i5 8250 you is delivering 38 94 to
39 70 so that's a good indication that performance is going to be comparable
the other thing that we need to be concerned with of course is battery life
and it's here that Qualcomm really excels we're talking about a new battery
life benchmark from PC mark as well they actually have a few tests they run
but essentially they're delivering 17 hours to almost 20 hours of battery life
running a video loop which is what we do at PC that PC world as well if you're
talking more about an actual real-world apps demonstration it's between 16 to 17
hours now the other thing to think about is the night raid benchmark that's a new
benchmark that PC mark or actually the runs under the 3d mark came out last
year and nitrate is both runs both on armed systems as well as Intel systems
now we're delivering a CPU score of 44 31 to 44 83 for the 8250 you that's a
little bit higher than what the Snapdragon is delivering but overall
because of the fact that it's actually running a more powerful version of its
integrated GPU we're seeing scores of about 57 10 258 15 that compares to
about 50 47 to 50 55 for the 8250 you so again substantially greater GPU
performance that should equate to perhaps not the say Call of Duty's level
of performance in the PC mark but certainly quality graphics performance
over time so what we are seeing here is briefly and look at the 5g network here
we can see that 5g is the other aspect of Qualcomm platform the 8c X is part of
what they call the always connected PC what's nice about this is that it has
both the X the X 55 5g modem inside of it as well as the older X 24 LTE modem
essentially basically saying okay they can straddle both the LTE world as well
as the emerging 5g market as well so that is really what we came here to copy
text to see sort of the first performance indications from the 8c X as
well as a essentially a product commitment from Lenovo to ship it