Report shows Snapdragon X market share is staggeringly low

Last year, Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon X chipset designed for Windows-based computers. Qualcomm’s CEO was particularly optimistic about the chipset, claiming that it could eventually command 50% of the Windows PC market in the next five years. But perhaps Qualcomm’s expectations should be tempered.

According to benchmarking software PassMark, it seems that in the past 30 days, the number of Snapdragon X submissions they’ve received accounts for only 0.3% of total benchmark submissions. In actual figures, this is about 56 submissions. This is versus the 99.7% that were submitted for x86-based computers.

To be fair, PassMark is just one of many benchmarking platforms around. Secondly, despite being announced last year, we’ve only started seeing the release of Snapdragon X powered PCs this year. 0.3% is kind of a paltry figure and it doesn’t really fill us with a lot of hope. That being said, it is possible that future releases could be more well-received.

So far based on the tests we’ve seen, battery life on these PCs have proven to be a match for the Apple Silicon. It is one of the advantages of Arm-based PCs versus more traditional x86-based computers. Pricing is another potential pain point where many of these PCs do not come cheap.

Either way, it might be too early to tell how well Qualcomm’s chipsets will fare, but what do you think?