Qualcomm is officially letting the cat out of the bag with its new desktop-grade Snapdragon X Series. Just as the rumours hinted, the new series comprises the X Elite and X Plus.
Starting with the Snapdragon X Elite, the lineup is the chipmaker’s highest-end model, comprising three SKUs. the X1E-78-100, X1E-80-100, and X1E-84-100. All three models sport 12 Oryon CPU cores, with a total cache of 42MB.
The top-tier Snapdragon X Elite SKU, the X1E-84-100, has a maximum multithreaded frequency of 3.8GHz, and a dual core boost of 4.2GHz. The other two, the X1E-80-100 and X1E-78-100, both turbo up to 3.4GHz on all threads, but only the former supports dual core boost speeds of up to 4.0GHz.
The ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite Series all come with Adreno integrated GPU cores, with the top-tier model able to achieve up to 4.6 TFLOPs, while the other two have a peak GPU performance of 3.8 TFLOPs. Lastly, they are all equipped with Qualcomm’s Hexagon NPU, capable of achieving 45 TOPs across the board.
Moving down the list, is the Snapdragon X Plus. There is only SKU listed, the X1P-64-100, and specs-wise, it houses 10 Oryon CPU cores, has a total cache of 42MB, a maximum multi-thread frequency of 3.4GHz, but no dual core boost. The onboard Adreno GPU turbos up to 3.8 TFLOPs, and like the X Elite series, it shares the same Hexagon NPU with 45 TOPs performance.
All variant of the Snapdragon X Series processors support LPDDR5x memory, with speeds of up to 8448MT/s. Qualcomm says that we can expect the first laptops with its processors to appear on the market as early as mid-2024.
(Source: Qualcomm PR)
