Copilot+PC Product Disappoints in Initial Tests

According to TapTechNews on June 14, a Reddit community user cponica23 posted a thread three days ago, sharing the initial impression of the Copilot+PC product, but the preliminary test result was not ideal.

Performance

The user tested a Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XElite processor (X1E-78-100). The actual GeekBench跑分 single-core score was 1841 points, and the multi-core score was 11537 points.

While Qualcomm once promised that the single-core score in the GeekBench跑分 would exceed 3000 points and the multi-core score would exceed 15000 points, the actual single-core score was 38.6% lower and the multi-core score was 23.1% lower.

Clock Frequency

The user entered the Task Manager and found that the maximum operating frequency of this processor was 2.5 GHz, which was far from the promised 3.4 GHz of the X1E-78-100 model, which also explained why the performance gap from the official propaganda was a bit large.

Another speculation is that Samsung is reducing the CPU frequency to get a better battery life. However, the NPU, an important part of the Copilot+PC, was not tested by the user.

Battery Life

The initial battery life impression was good, but it did not reach the level of the Apple M2 MacBook Air, but it was much better than the Core Ultra 9185H Zenbook Duo that only uses one screen.

The full battery life of the Zenbook Duo is about 17-18 hours, while the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge can reach 22 hours.

Game Testing

TapTechNews learned from the post that the user tested with Resident Evil: Village. After enabling FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) in the performance mode and under the 1080P Medium preset, the game could output a frame rate of 40 to 50 FPS.