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Snapdragon X Elite Running In The Snapdragon Dev Kit Can Reach A Power Draw Of Up To 102W With Cinebench 2024 Fired Up
The Snapdragon Dev Kit was introduced by Qualcomm for developers at a price of $899, and it featured the company’s top-end silicon for Windows-powered machines, the Snapdragon X Elite. Given that the chipset takes advantage of processing cores based on ARM’s instruction sets and not the x86 architecture, power-efficiency would be its forte. Unfortunately, the Snapdragon X Elite displays extreme power-guzzling attributes when running inside the kit, as one developer points out when running a couple of tests, including Cinebench 2024.