A new leak from Evan Blass (aka evleaks) has revealed specifications of an allegedly upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus variant that’s set to be unveiled during IFA Berlin next week. It is alleged to be a budget-friendly version, featuring only eight cores instead of ten.
Blass’ leak corroborates with a recent report from Videocardz regarding the same chip. The latter claims the new Snapdragon X Plus variant will offer 3.4GHz single-core boost and 3.2GHz multi-core boost, a watered-down Adreno GPU rated at 1.7 TFLOPS (instead of 3.8 TFLOPS), LPDDR5X RAM with 30MB total cache (compared to 42MB).
It will also retain the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU with 45 TOPS, as well as the Always-Sensing ISP, Wi-Fi 7 and 5G support. Other than that, as further revealed by Blass’ leak, the eight-core variant supports a wide range of thermal designs and notebook form factors, is capable of supporting triple external monitors at UHD resolution and 60Hz (instead of 4K 120Hz), and promises long lasting battery life.
The leakster adds that the Snapdragon X Plus chip will ship on CoPilot+ notebooks starting at US$800 (~RM3,455). According to Videocardz, an unannounced ASUS Vivobook S15 variant will feature this chip, while WinFuture claims that the ASUS ProArt PZ13 convertible that was unveiled during Computex 2024 already has the hardware equipped.
(Source: Evan Blass, via X)
