Medion SPRCHRGD 14 Series
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon X SD X Elite X1E-78-100Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS
Display: 14.00 inch
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 1300 euro
Average of 5 scores (from 4 reviews)
Medion SPRCHRGD 14 S1 Elite
Specifications
Notebook: Medion SPRCHRGD 14 S1 EliteProcessor: Qualcomm Snapdragon X SD X Elite X1E-78-100
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS
Display: 14.00 inch, 16:10, 2880 x 1800 pixels
Weight: 1.4kg
Price: 1300 euro
Links: Medion homepage Medion notebook section
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Reviews
With the SPRCHRGD 14 S1, Medion has hopped aboard the Windows on ARM train: The 14-incher offers moderate emissions, long battery life, 32 GB of RAM, a 1 TB SSD and a bright 2.8K panel (IPS, sRGB, 120 Hz, 16:10). With an asking price of around $1,400 (EUR to USD exchange rate at the time of testing), it is currently one of the more affordable Snapdragon X laptops.
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Welt
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/19/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Computerbild
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/31/2024
Rating: Total score: 91%
Source: PCtipp.ch
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Les Numeriques
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 04/10/2025
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 60% display: 80% mobility: 100% workmanship: 80%
Comment
Medion: Medion AG is a German consumer electronics company. It operates in Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific region. The main products are computers, TVs, refrigerators, toasters, and fitness equipment. The manufacturer of laptops Medion mainly is active in the German market, but to smaller extent also in Western Europe. Market shares and amount of reviews are low. Above all, supermarkets like Aldi sell their laptops. In 2011, Medion has been acquired by the laptop manufacturer Lenovo.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS: An integrated graphics adapter that four Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors feature, as of Sep 2024. It has 1,536 unified shaders at its disposal that are said to run at up to 1,250 MHz. The underlying architecture is reportedly in many respects the same as what was used in the Adreno 730. While thankfully faster than the aging Intel Iris Xe (96 EUs), the Adreno fails to match the Radeon 780M meaning Baldur's Gate 3, a triple-A title released in 2023, is barely playable at 1080p on low with 23 fps on average. Triple-A games of 2024 fare even worse, in no small part due to Qualcomm's subpar graphics drivers.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X:
SD X Elite X1E-78-100: A pretty fast ARM architecture processor (SoC) for use in Windows laptops. The X1E-78-100 is the least powerful member of the Snapdragon X Elite processor series, as of May 2024; as such, it has 12 Oryon CPU cores running at no more than 3.4 GHz and the 3.8 TFLOPS Adreno X1-85 GPU. The 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, an impressively fast LPDDR5x-8448 memory controller, USB 4.0 support, TB 4 support and PCIe 4 support are included as well.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.00:
14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact.
In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
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80.74%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.