This may finally be the chip family ARM on Windows has always needed. Qualcomm's chips have always been dogs with slow off-the-shelf ARM CPU cores that have pathetic single-threaded performance compared to x86 AMD/Intel or ARM Apple Silicon designs.

For reference, this is just a single benchmark, but as an idea of each vendor's top mobile CPU single-threaded performance:

Geekbench Single Thread Score:

- DGX Spark (same CPU as RTX Spark): 3125

- Snapdragon X1 Elite: 2950

- Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme: 4050

- AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: 3225

- Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus: 3175

- Apple M5 Max: 4350

I'm happy to be wrong about Qualcomm's latest X2 chip performance, even if it is shipping in only a single product so far. Their previous best was the lowest in this list.

This will likely have worse single threaded performance than recent Qualcomm CPUs.

These chips also appear to be using off-the-shelf ARM cores.

Qualcomm Snapdragon x1 and upcoming x2 use their Oryon core and have much faster single-thread performance than Intel/Amd and this nvidia soc that uses off-the-shelf arm cores