Microsoft just teased its next big Windows 11 updateĪ brief glimpse of a desktop.

Qualcomm’s rumored 12-core chip finally sounds like a true ARM revolution for PCs Why Windows on ARM still couldn’t catch up this year You can finally run Windows 11 natively on an Apple silicon Mac However, considering Microsoft’s partners are launching medium-end laptops with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 processor (See the Samsung Galaxy Book Go,) it’s not out of the realm that a Surface Laptop could also sport the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3.ĭell’s first Windows 11 ARM laptop is priced like a Chromebook

Microsoft usually opts for using ARM-based chips in the Surface Pro X, so it’s more than likely this could be a Pro X device, rather than a Surface Laptop. Single-core scores, meanwhile, aren’t that comparable at 867 on the Qualcomm and 1541 on the Intel. The Qualcomm in question nets 5574, and the Intel, a 5571. Combined with Windows 11 optimization for ARM chips on the Microsoft side of things, we might finally start to see wider adoption.Īgain, we can’t verify the authenticity of the listing, as Geekbench listings can be altered, but the results show that in the multi-core score, the 8cx Gen 3 actually can come close to Intel’s 25-watt Core i7-1165G7 processor.

That’s been a constant hurdle with ARM-powered PCs, specifically the Surface Pro X. Though we don’t know the true specs of the device Microsoft could have been testing here, the benchmarks actually show its results to be on par with Intel’s Tiger Lake U series chips. Other rumors from 2021 also showed that Microsoft’s SQ3 Chip (based on this Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3) could have delivered 60% performance improvement against the current SQ2, and performance equal to an Intel Core i7-1160G7 CPU. Qualcomm previously indicated that the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 could deliver an up to 85% generational performance uplift and up to 60% greater performance per watt in Geekbench 5 multi-thread testing over an x86 processor. However, what matters most are the Geekbench results. And “EV2” could refer to Microsoft’s Equipment Verification Testing devices, which are used to iron our hardware bugs before consumer release. Judging from the past, this means the product could be the next Surface Pro X or a new Surface Laptop, suggested by the German blog Winfuture.

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