Googlebook benchmarks show Snapdragon and Intel trade leads

A five-Googlebook benchmark comparison published on October 7, 2026, found different leaders depending on the workload. Snapdragon X Elite systems led the Geekbench 6 multi-core results and the comparison’s 3DMark table; Intel Core Ultra 5 325 systems led CrossMark productivity and responsiveness, while Snapdragon led creativity. The battery runtimes ranged from 6 hours 18 minutes to 11 hours 52 minutes, with one run per model.

The earlier Googlebook preorder and scheduled U.S. store-date coverage covers the rollout context. The benchmark results give a more specific picture of how the first five models performed across different tests.

The five tested Googlebooks

The comparison covered the Acer Googlebook 14, Asus Googlebook 14, Dell XPS Googlebook 14, HP Googlebook 14, and Lenovo Googlebook 15. Each tested starting configuration had 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. Acer, Asus, and Lenovo used Intel Core Ultra 5 325 Panther Lake processors; Dell and HP used Snapdragon X Elite.

Geekbench 6: Snapdragon leads in multi-core

Geekbench reports separate CPU scores for single-core and multi-core work. The Dell and HP Snapdragon systems posted the highest results in both columns; their multi-core scores were 14,724 and 14,679, compared with 9,819–9,960 for the three Intel systems.

CrossMark: the result changes with the task

CrossMark breaks performance into productivity, creativity, and responsiveness scores, then combines them into an overall result. Intel-powered Acer, Asus, and Lenovo systems led productivity and responsiveness; the Snapdragon Dell and HP led creativity. Overall scores were relatively close, ranging from 3,208 to 3,647.

Because CrossMark weights productivity and creativity more heavily than responsiveness, its overall score is not simply an average of all three categories. The split results are more useful than a single processor-wide winner: the leading system depends on which kind of work the benchmark emphasizes.

3DMark Wild Life Extreme: graphics results and separate readings

In the five-model comparison’s 3DMark Wild Life Extreme results, the Dell and HP Snapdragon systems scored higher than the Acer and Asus Intel systems. The test also reports average frames per second (FPS), a measure of how many frames are rendered each second.

Separately published results for the Lenovo Googlebook 15 differed: one report gave a score of 4,421 and 26.5 FPS, while another, also published October 7, gave 3,525 and 21.11 FPS. The Dell XPS Googlebook results differed as well: 6,688 and 40.0 FPS in the five-model comparison, versus 6,018 and 36.04 FPS in the separate report.

Battery life: one run per model

The reported battery runtimes span 6 hours 18 minutes on the Asus Googlebook 14 to 11 hours 52 minutes on the HP Googlebook 14. Each result came from one run per model.

The test used 150-nit screen brightness, the default theme, and a 120Hz refresh rate. Bluetooth and location services were off. A Chrome extension browsed 30 live websites every 30 seconds until each laptop’s battery ran out. All five tested units had OLED displays. The results describe that browsing procedure, not every mix of apps, brightness settings, or workloads.