Tested: Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite CPU looks like a legit Intel rival

Believe it: Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite looks ready to live up to its incredibly lofty promises based on a suite of early benchmarks we saw Qualcomm run late last week. But are AMD and Intel out of the race? Not at all, as the numbers also reveal how both competitors will likely spin their way back into the conversation. Qualcomm closed out its Snapdragon Technology Summit in Maui by allowing reporters to view, if not actually run, benchmarks across two demo systems with undisclosed Snapdragon X Elite chips inside them. In general, they met claims that Qualcomm executives had made earlier in the show -- that Snapdragon X Elite would meet if not significantly exceed its X86 rivals, specifically the Intel 13th-gen Core chips.