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The new Snapdragon X Elite for Windows laptops
The all-new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile chip will power all the most powerful phones and tablets on the market next year. At the same time, Qualcomm introduced another #141;ip, which is intended for Windows notebooks on the ARM platform. It's called the Snapdragon X Elite, and with it, Qualcomm declared war on the giants AMD and Intel. Qualcomm hopes to take a bigger share of the PC market with its latest chip.
The Snapdragon X Elite is built on a 4nm (nanometer) manufacturing process and features 12 high-performance Oryon cores clocked at 3.8GHz with single and double boosts up to 4.3GHz. Qualcomm states that its new processor achieves the equivalent multi-core performance of competing 13th generation Intel CPUs while consuming 68 percent less power, which is a very optimistic prediction. A comparison was also made with the Apple M2's ARM chip, with Qualcomm's benchmark for the Snapdragon X Elite claiming to be 50 percent faster with maximum thread capacity. These are big promises and we will have to wait for real independent tests to verify these claims.
On the graphics side, the X Elite has an integrated Adreno graphics processor with a capacity of 4.6 TFLOPs and support for DirectX 12 API. The ÄŒip can manage up to three external UHD monitors with a frequency of 60 Hz. Video editors can take advantage of the Adreno Video Processing Unit (VPU), which supports 4K60 10-bit encoding and decoding for H.264, HEVC (H.265) and AV1 files.
Qualcomm also added a Hexagon NPU chip with 45 tera operations per second (TOPs), which is great for generative AI tasks.
ÄŒip supports LPDDR5x RAM with max. 136GB/s memory bandwidth and 42MB total cache and PCIe Gen4 or UFS 4.0 storage. In terms of connectivity, the Snapdragon X Elite has a FastConnect 7800 system with support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 and a Snapdragon X65 5G modem for cellular connectivity with maximum 10 Gbps of premium transfer speeds. X Elite thanksÄ The Qualcomm Aqstic DAC supports lossless audio playback and also includes a Qualcomm Spectra image processing processor (ISP) with support for dual cameras with resolutions of up to #141; up to 36 MP and 4K HDR video recording.
