Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx chip bests Intel i5 in benchmark competition

After making a brief appearance at the end of 2018, Qualcomm's oddly named Snapdragon 8cx turned up again at Computex 2019 in Taipei. This time around, the 8cx made a case for the future of ARM-based laptops.

With the help of PCMark 10 - a benchmark designed to emulate a typical office environment - Qualcomm showed the Snapdragon 8cx besting a quad-core Intel Core i5 8250U CPU in speed and power efficiency.

For the test benches, both sides ...