There’s also an Adreno 540 GPU clocked at 710 MHz.
Both the CPU and GPU are designed in-house at Qualcomm, and the SoC is fabricated at 10nm.
My Envy x2 review unit has 8GB of RAM, although many units include just 4GB.
There’s also a 256GB SSD inside.
The Snapdragon 835 is more competitive against the N3450, but the N3450 still pulls ahead by 6 percent.
On a more concerning note, single-core performance is extremely weak from the Snapdragon 835 while running emulated workloads.
The N3450 doubles its single-thread performance, while the i7-7Y75 is more than five times faster.
Yep, five times faster.
Absolutely dire results for Windows on ARM emulation so far.
In fact doing any sort of rendering is very slow on the Snapdragon 835.
Moving on to Photoshop and… wow.
I thought Windows on ARM emulated performance would be weak, but this is something else.
The large 288 MP test photo we use absolutely chokes the Snapdragon 835.
This is something I noticed while trying to work with several other large files and datasets.
The Snapdragon 835 is simply not built for these tasks, especially while emulated.
There are some benchmarks where Windows on ARM performance isn’t as embarrassing.
The i7-7Y75 is 47 percent faster in this test, though.
Any GPU-related workloads, including games, tend to be the least reliable on Windows on ARM.
However some 3DMark tests do work, and the results aren’t too bad for the Snapdragon 835.
