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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)
- 2,092Bottom 18%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 11,353Top 50%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 970Bottom 6%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 7,294Bottom 18%
- PassMark
- 16,366Bottom 30%
- PassMark (single thread)
- 2,870Bottom 18%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 917Bottom 27%
Devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100
10 devices in our catalog use this chip
Also on 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 46.5/100 (“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 16,366 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26–Oct 8, 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?
10 devices in our catalog use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X X1-26-100: ASUS Zenbook A14 (UX3407), ASUS Vivobook S16 (S3607QA), ASUS Vivobook S14 (S3407QA), ASUS Vivobook 16 (X1607QA), HP ProBook 4 G1q 14, and more.
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 7 5800H, Intel Core i7-11800H, Intel Core i5-1235U — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
