Qualcomm accused of pumping up benchmark results for its new Snapdragon chips

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Qualcomm is being accused of cheating on the benchmark performances of its new Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors made for laptops. Yes, this is a little out of our jurisdiction, but we thought that you would be interested in the topic of benchmark cheating since it has reared its head before in the world of smartphones.

A report citing a deep source at Qualcomm says the chip designer's benchmark results for its Snapdragon X Elite/X Plus SoCs are not legit During last October's Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm acted a little squirrely during the briefing on the Snapdragon X Elite SoC. At MWC things got worse as the company put up slides showing that the X Elite chip's CPU outperformed those from Apple, AMD, and Intel without displaying any data that would verify these claims. The benchmarks were created using a"black box" with the media not allowed to run or test anything.

To make matters worse, when the manufacturers received their initial samples, performance numbers were"far sub-50%" than the figures claimed by Qualcomm. The aforementioned"deep source" at Qualcomm told SemiAccurate that the benchmarks were cheats and that Qualcomm was aware of it. Laptops using the new chips will launch in June and Qualcomm will still not allow independent tests of the hardware.

 

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