Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 24 December 2025 at 11:00 AM EST. Page 5 of 7. 13 Comments.
Even for workloads that didn't regress from September to December on the Snapdragon X Elite, the comparison data to prior Linux laptop tests at Phoronix this year show the X1E coming in just the middle of the race for performance. The AMD Strix Halo / Strix Point and Intel Lunar Lake laptops were offering much faster web browsing performance.
With the twelve AArch64 cores the performance was competitive back in September for some of the code compilation benchmarks but now less compelling with the current state of this laptop's performance on Ubuntu 25.10 + Linux 6.18.
With the video encode performance the regression so severe the X1 Elite CPU-based video encode performance was similar to old Intel Tiger Lake laptops.