The Snapdragon X Elite is said to be the official name of Qualcomm’s high-end chipset tailor-made for PCs and the company’s first to feature its custom Oryon cores that were developed to rival Apple’s M-series. A detailed list of its specifications has been shared, including a CPU and GPU that is supposedly twice as fast as x86 processors. While the marketing might be ambiguous, let us dive into the details and find out more.
Unnamed Adreno GPU has a computing performance of 4.6FLOPS, with the Snapdragon X Elite getting LPDDR5X memory support too
In an earlier report, it was mentioned that Qualcomm is working on three ‘Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3’ variants, with the top-end model reserved for premium notebooks sporting a 12-core CPU. According to VideoCardz on X, all 12 cores are high-performance ones, with no mention of power-efficiency ones, which is strange to see because, in a detailed report, it was mentioned that the Snapdragon X Elite would be fueled by eight performance cores and four efficiency ones.
Aside from the core count, the upcoming SoC is said to have LPDDR5X RAM support, with up to 136GB/s memory bandwidth. The NPU, or Neural Processing Unit, will reportedly have a computing performance of 45TOPS, with the unnamed Adreno GPU said to achieve a 4.6TFLOPS computing threshold while also supporting up to a triple 4K monitor setup. This triple-monitor support will likely be possible through a Thunderbolt 4 connection.
Snapdragon X Elite SoC for PCs
CPU: 12 Oryon high-performance cores
— VideoCardz.com (@VideoCardz) October 22, 2023
While Wi-Fi 7 is said to be one perk of switching to a notebook with a Snapdragon X Elite, it is also said to feature a 5G modem, an addition that Apple’s M-series portable Macs lack. However, the specifications list does not mention if the 5G modem will be soldered to the motherboard or if a separate card will be installed in a slot that can be swapped out for a better part in the future.
One interesting piece of information we spotted from the leak was that the Snapdragon X Elite has a CPU and GPU pairing that is twice as fast as x86 processors. This claim is quite vague, as there are a multitude of x86 processors available, though VideoCardz points out that Qualcomm might be referring to Intel’s Raptor Lake 28W CPU with 96EU units, as that tops out at 2.3TFLOPS. Irrespective of these claims, we will still wait for real-world benchmarks to provide us with an accurate picture of the Snapdragon X Elite’s capabilities.
A small tidbit about generative AI was also mentioned, with 13 billion parameters on the device, but it is unclear how helpful this will be when the Snapdragon X Elite is running on various machines. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit is said to start on October 24, so we will know all the details about the upcoming PC SoC soon, so any elusive information will be shared then.
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