Nvidia's N1X SoC Beats Intel in Single Threaded Performance Leak

Nvidia has been producing enterprise-grade CPUs to complement its capable GPUs for a while now, but it’s never released anything in the consumer space. That may be set to change, though, as the long-rumored N1X mobile SoC has popped up in Geekbench, and its performance is impressive—even beating the Intel 285HX in single-threaded performance.
The laptop CPU market has become far more competitive in recent years. AMD’s options finally caught up with Intel, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips offer a real Windows-on-Arm experience. But Nvidia could be set to shake that up even further in the years to come if the leaked results of its N1X chip are anything to go by. The results are limited, and the chip itself still has yet to be announced, but its potential to be a game changer in the already-competitive industry is very much real.
The Geekbench results have the Nvidia N1X returning a single-core score of 3,096 and a multi-core score of 18,837. As Tom’s Hardware points out, this would make it very competitive with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 flagship mobile chip, which manages 3,125 and 21,035, respectively. That’s important, because it’s also running a version of Linux in those tests.
The Intel comparison is equally interesting, though perhaps a little unfair. The 285HX is recorded as having scores of 3,078 and 22,104, respectively, giving the N1X a slight lead in single-threaded performance. However, the Intel CPU is running on Windows, a notoriously weightier operating system than Linux, which could account for the disparity.
The N1X in this Geekbench test reportedly had 20 threads (likely meaning 20 physical cores) and had as much as 128GB of RAM on the development board, with 8GB set aside for the GPU, though this isn’t confirmed.
Indeed, Nvidia has yet to announce the chip. It skipped over its opportunity to announce anything related to it at Computex, which probably means we aren’t going to see any details this side of the new year. If that’s the case, Nvidia will be facing stiffer competition for this hardware from next-generation designs from AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm.
It’s clearly got something that’s worth throwing into the mix, but it will need to maintain that scale of improvement if it hopes to remain that way moving forward.
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