Microsoft SQ1: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Microsoft SQ1 provides poor benchmark performance at 3.60% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

Summary

started Microsoft SQ1 sales 2 October 2019. This is a Cortex-A76 / A55 (Kryo 495) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 7 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3000 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Primary details

Microsoft SQ1 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking1420
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesQualcomm Snapdragon
Architecture codenameCortex-A76 / A55 (Kryo 495) (2019)
Release date2 October 2019 (4 years ago)
Current price$1873 of 15701 (Xeon Platinum 8276L)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads8
Boost clock speed3 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L3 cache2 MBof 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography7 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility-
Unlocked multiplierNo

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Microsoft SQ1.

Integrated graphics cardQualcomm Adreno 685

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Microsoft SQ1. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Microsoft SQ1 3.60

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Microsoft SQ1 5565

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Microsoft SQ1 537

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Microsoft SQ1 4276

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Microsoft SQ1's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Microsoft SQ1 100
N100 99.72

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Microsoft SQ1, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Microsoft SQ1 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 136 configurations using Microsoft SQ1 in our database.

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