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Subscribe to our newsletter There's been a decent level of buzz around Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite chip for a while now.

That's for excellent reason.

It popped up on Geekbench last month, beating its x86 laptop competition by over 30% in single-core performance, and early tests beat out AMD, Intel, and Apple in power.

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Now we've finally seen it tested by someone other than Qualcomm, and the results are positive, though largely just with similar showings to what Intel and AMD are offering.Our friends over at Tom's Hardware are among the most critical, though much of that critique lies at the feet of Asus for the build quality and software of the Zenbook A16.

For gaming, they say the X2 Elite Extreme is impressive on paper, with 3DMark Steel Nomad scores higher than the M5 MacBook Air and Intel Core Ultra 7 355 Dell XPS 14, but less than the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H Acer Swift.Tom's Hardware reports struggling to even open Resident Evil Requiem, which they chalk up to Microsoft's Prism emulation.

This is a common complaint ## Editor's Note Stay tuned for more updates as this story develops. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-laptops/qualcomm-snapdragon-x2-elite-reviews-are-in-but-these-second-gen-windows-on-arm-chips-still-arent-grabbing-me-as-a-pc-gamer/)