Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 9 September 2025 at 09:36 AM EDT. Page 14 of 15. 46 Comments.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite within the Acer Swift 14 AI was performing much better than before thanks to the new Ubuntu Concept X1E ISO state with Linux 6.17 as well as the new Acer system firmware. But still in many workloads the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and even Intel Meteor Lake / Lunar Lake were much faster than this Qualcomm Snapdragon laptop.
Then as for the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with the X1 Elite while running on the open-source Linux drivers, the 3D acceleration was working for OpenGL and Vulkan. However, it wasn't anything too especial. The AMD Ryzen AI 300 series with their RDNA 3.5 graphics were delivering much better iGPU performance than the Qualcomm Adreno.