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Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100
Qualcomm's entry-level Windows on Arm chip, built to hit $600 laptops. Eight Oryon cores at 3.0GHz and a cut-down Adreno GPU deliver modest performance, but the 45 TOPS NPU and multi-day battery life survive the cost cutting intact.
Pros
- Copilot+ certification at the lowest laptop price point
- Multi-day battery life in cheap thin-and-lights
- Eight Oryon cores are plenty for office and web work
- Cool and quiet enough for fanless designs
Cons
- Eight cores and no boost clock cap performance
- Adreno X1-45 graphics are entry level
- Arm emulation overhead hits older x86 apps hardest
- Slower than Intel and AMD rivals in raw compute
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100
General
- Announced
- 2025
- Process
- 4 nm
- Base TDP
- 23 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 8
- Performance cores
- 8
- Threads
- 8
- Base clock
- 3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 3 GHz
- L3 cache
- 6 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Qualcomm Adreno X1-45
- iGPU clock
- 1,100 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-8448
- Max memory
- 64 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,150Bottom 26%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 10,800Bottom 44%
- PassMark
- 16,386Bottom 35%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 917Bottom 32%
Devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100
1 device in our catalog uses this chip
Quick answers
Is the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100 good in 2026?
The Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100 earns an Inno Score of 48.9/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Qualcomm's entry-level Windows on Arm chip, built to hit $600 laptops. Eight Oryon cores at 3.0GHz and a cut-down Adreno GPU deliver modest performance, but the 45 TOPS NPU and multi-day battery life survive the cost cutting intact.
Does the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100 count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 16,386 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier B of our CPU tier checker: recent mainstream Core i7 / Ryzen 7, plus older H-series chips. It is an Arm-based chip, so a requirement that asks specifically for an Intel or AMD (x86-64) processor excludes it. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
Which devices use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100?
One device in our catalog uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100: ASUS Vivobook S14 Flip (TP5408QA).
What are the key specs of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100?
Cores: 8 · Threads: 8 · Boost clock: 3 GHz · Base TDP: 23 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 5 7530U, Intel Core i7-1255U, AMD Ryzen 7 5800U — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
