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Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 marks the World’s First 5nm Windows PC platform. Qualcomm says that its advanced 5nm process node, combined with other optimizations, allowed it to improve the Qualcomm Kryo ...
The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is the world’s first thin-and-light, premium laptop to be built around the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which should offer road warriors more performance, comprehensive, always ...
The first laptop released that uses the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor is now available for sale. The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s has a slim design and up to 28 hours of battery life.
Maybe the 8cx Gen 3 will change that. But it’s hard not to feel like the 8cx Gen 3 isn’t anything but a stopgap when Qualcomm is already teasing its next next-generation Windows PC chips for 2023.
The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 has a Kryo CPU and a Qualcomm Adreno GPU and while Qualcomm has not given any details about the exact models, it claims that the new GPU helps this silicon support full-HD ...
At the heart of the ThinkPad X13s is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx gen 3 processor. That’s Qualcomm’s latest laptop processor, and it features: 4 x ARM Cortex-X1 CPU cores @ 3 GHz ...
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8cX Gen 3, a new ARM SoC that should bring new experiences to a potential new wave of laptops in the year 2022.
To give a sense of the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3’s performance vs a newer, 12th gen Intel laptop, I also ran this benchmark on a brand new Acer with a mobile-focused Intel Core i7-1255u chip inside.
Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3, which builds on last year's Gen 2, is the first 5nm PC platform, according to Qualcomm, which designed it with ultra-slim and fanless laptops in mind.
While the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 sits around the 5,300 to 5,900 range, the Gen 4 achieves an impressive 9,337. On average, the M1 chip sits in the 7000s, while the M2 achieves 8,500 to 9,000.
But going back to Chromebooks, the Chromium Repository is listing the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 as “SC8280xp,” which was the code-name for the SoC when it was used in Windows Laptops.