Qualcomm Says Its Snapdragon X Elite SoC Can Beat Apple, Intel

Qualcomm at present introduced its new Snapdragon X Elite platform at its Snapdragon Summit 2023 in Maui, Hawaii, United States. The firm had introduced the Snapdragon X branding earlier this month. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite platform options the corporate’s Oryon CPU and guarantees a efficiency enhance of as much as two instances versus its closest rivals. So far, Qualcomm has solely shared some reference designs and benchmarks, however we’re anticipating to see some stay benchmarks over the approaching days.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip is constructed on a 4nm course of, with 12 high-performance cores clocked at 3.8GHz and as much as 136GB/s reminiscence bandwidth. The chipmaker confirmed off some spectacular numbers in the course of the keynote, together with 50 p.c “faster peak multi-threaded performance” when in comparison with Apple Silicon M2, and as much as twice the CPU efficiency in comparison with Intel Core i7-13800H. However, it is value mentioning right here that the Snapdragon X Elite has 50 p.c extra cores in comparison with Apple’s M2 chip. 

Oryon, Qualcomm’s newest Arm CPU core is designed by Nuvia, the corporate that it acquired again in 2021. Snapdragon X Elite SoC is full of 12 Oryon cores. These are cut up into three elements with 4 cores every. Snapdragon X Elite looks like an enormous bounce in enchancment contemplating the corporate’s older 8XC chips. For a laptop computer, Snapdragon X Elite SoC seems like a robust chip, however we’ll have to attend for an entire hands-on and stay benchmarks. 

On the graphics entrance, Qualcomm claims its newest chipset provides as much as twice the efficiency in comparison with an Intel Core i7-13800H with 74 p.c much less energy consumption. 

Qualcomm stays deeply focussed on including an AI factor into its newest chips. The Snapdragon X Elite is able to operating generative AI fashions with greater than 13 billion parameters on the machine itself. The firm’s newest premium cellular chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, can be full of on-device generative AI options. 

During the day 1 keynote, Qualcomm introduced a number of key companions together with Lenovo which can be on board to ship gadgets full of its newest chips. You can anticipate PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite to begin transport from the center of 2024. 

Qualcomm Seamless introduced 

Another attention-grabbing announcement in the course of the keynote was Qualcomm Seamless. Dubbed as a ‘cross-platform’ expertise that may allow gadgets throughout a number of platforms to speak to one another so customers can have a seamless expertise, Seamless will work on Android, Windows, and Snapdragon-based gadgets. Qualcomm is working with Microsoft, Google, Dell, Lenovo, and different companions to deliver its Seamless expertise to extra gadgets. Use instances may revolve round switching wi-fi earphones between a number of sources, shifting information amongst completely different gadgets, and so forth. 

Snapdragon Seamless comes built-in on the corporate’s new Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platforms. Qualcomm companions akin to Xiaomi, Lenovo, Microsoft, and others are anticipated to roll out help for the expertise of their upcoming merchandise.