Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra
Now knowing that between the updated Acer Swift 14 AI system firmware and the new Ubuntu X1E Concept ISO with Linux 6.17 there are some nice performance improvements, I was eager to compare the data to other AMD Ryzen and Intel Core laptops tested over the summer on Ubuntu 25.04.
So from here a large comparison of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite within the Acer Swift 14 AI against many other laptops that all ran well on Ubuntu 25.04:
- Core i7 8550U - Dell XPS 9370
- Core i7 8565U - Dell XPS 9380
- Core i5 1334U - Framework 12
- Core i7 1065G7 - Dell XPS 7390
- Core i7 1165G7 - Dell XPS 9310
- Core i7 1185G7 - Dell XPS 9310
- Core i7 1280P - MSI Prestige 14Evo
- Core Ultra 7 155H - Acer Swift Go 14
- Core Ultra 7 256V - ASUS Zenbook S14
- Core Ultra 7 258V - X1 Carbon G13
- Ryzen 7 4700U - Lenovo IdeaPad 5
- Ryzen 7 7840HS - Framework 16
- Ryzen 7 7840U - Acer Swift Edge 16
- Ryzen 7 7840U - Framework 13
- Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U - ThinkPad T14s G2a
- Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U - ThinkPad X13 G3
- Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U - ThinkPad P14s G4
- Ryzen 9 5900HX - ASUS ROG Strix G513QY
- Ryzen AI 5 340 - HP OmniBook 5
- Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 - ThinkPad T14s G6
- Ryzen AI 9 365 - ASUS Zenbook S16
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - ASUS Zenbook S16
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 - Framework 13
- Ryzen AI Max 390 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a
- Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 - HP ZBook Ultra G1a
- X Elite - Acer Swift 14 AI
These Ubuntu 25.04 benchmarks are just looking at the raw performance. Unfortunately, the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC still was unable to expose any CPU/SoC power consumption data on Linux 6.17 for being able to compare the numbers against the AMD and Intel hardware tested. So due to those limitations of the X1E on Linux, unable to accurately compare the power consumption and performance-per-Watt at this time.