By Rami Tabari
Publication Date: 2026-02-10 19:22:00
Our first group of tests includes workloads such as content creation, office productivity, and raw CPU speeds. Since our general productivity and storage test, PCMark 10, is not yet Snapdragon compatible, we focused on core-stressing tests and media tasks.
The three main tests presented below are CPU-centric or processor-intensive. Maxon’s Cinebench 2024 uses the company’s Cinema 4D engine to render a complex scene; Geekbench 6.3 Pro from Primate Labs simulates popular apps from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning; and we see how long it takes transcoding freeware HandBrake 1.8 to convert a 12-minute clip from 4K to 1080p resolution. (The Dell Inspiron laptop failed to complete the Cinebench tests and is therefore missing from the table below.)
Additionally, Puget Systems’ PugetBench for Creators Adobe Photoshop 25 test encountered issues on systems with Qualcomm Arm processors. That’s why we skipped it here until we sort out our problems…
