NVIDIA’s ARM Chip for PCs Shoots Up on Geekbench With Shockingly Weak Scores
N1X’s first scores are weak, but it’s still early days.
NVIDIA’s push into ARM-based SoCs for Windows has seen its first signs of life on Geekbench. In the last quarter of 2024, rumors were strong about Team Green co-engineering two chips with MediaTek, the N1X (2025) and the N1 (2026).
The chipmaking giant’s first WoA chip, the N1X, has been spotted on Geekbench (courtesy of @Jukanlosreve), and the results are disappointing, to say the least. It chalks up 1,169 in single-core and only 2,417 in multi-core. For an ARM-based chip, these results are nowhere near where NVIDIA would want them to be.
Even though these Geekbench scores for the N1X certainly don’t represent the final performance, here’s how they fare against the competition. Snapdragon’s lower-priced X Plus chips puts up 2,861 on single-core and 14,009 on multi-core, while Apple Silicon’s M4 manages to scrape together 3,812 on single-core and 20,076 on multi-core.
With the numbers stated above, the N1X’s initial benchmarks puts it 82.7% behind the Snapdragon X Plus, and 87.9% behind the M4.
The Geekbench listing mentions that the N1X sports a four-core configuration, which could be a temporary placeholder, as the final chip is expected to have a higher core count. There’s also mention of the chip running at 3.2GHz, which is decent but fails to improve these disappointing performance numbers.
This is all we know for now, but rest assured that we will keep you updated as new information becomes available.
