Details of Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC for Windows PCs leaked
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Last week, Qualcomm announced that Snapdragon X Series will be the brand for its upcoming chipsets for PCs. The Snapdragon X Series will compete with the popular Apple M-series chipsets in terms of performance in the ARM ecosystem. As per Qualcomm, the Snapdragon X Series will deliver industry leading performance per watt, multiple days of battery life on a single charge, dedicated NPU for AI processing and 5G connectivity.
Today, Windows Report leaked several details about the upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC that will be part of Snapdragon X Series. As the name suggests, the Snapdragon X Elite will be flagship chipset of this generation and it will offer up to 2X CPU and GPU performance when compared to equivalent x86 chipsets from Intel and AMD.
The Snapdragon X Elite will feature 12 Oryon high-performance cores, LPDDR5X memory that can support up to 136GB/s, Adreno GPU that can deliver 4.6 TFLOPS with triple 4K display support. In terms of AI performance, the Snapdragon X Elite will feature an NPU that can deliver 45 TOPS and it can run 13B parameter model on device. In terms of connectivity, the Snapdragon X Elite PCs will support both 5G and WiFi-7. Finally, the integrated Always Sensing ISP will be able to deliver several power efficient experiences. Check out the full specs below:
| CPU | Qualcomm® Oryon™ CPU 64-bit Architecture 12 cores, up to 3.8 GHz Single and Dual-Core Boost, up to 4.3 GHz |
| GPU | Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU Up to 4.6 TFLOPs API Support: DX12 |
| Memory | Memory Type: LPDDR5x Transfer rate: 8533 MT/s Capacity: Up to 64 GB Bandwidth: 136 GB/s Bit Width: 16-bit Number of Channels: 8 |
| Storage | SD: SD v3.0 SSD/NVMe Interface: NVMe SSD over PCIe Gen 4 UFS: UFS 4.0 |
| Display | Display Processing Unit (DPU) Name: Qualcomm® Adreno™ DPU Max. On-Device Display Resolution: eDP v1.4b, up to UHD120 HDR10 Max. External Display Resolution: DP v1.4 – 3 displays, up to UHD60 HDR10, 2 displays 5K60 |
| VPU | Video Processing Unit (VPU) Name: Qualcomm® Adreno™ VPU Encode: 4K60 10-bit encode – H.264, HEVC (H.265), AV1 Decode: 4K120 10-bit decode – H.264, HEVC (H.265), VP9, AV1 Concurrency: 4K60 decode – H.264, HEVC (H.265), VP9, AV1 / 2x 4K30 encode – H.264, HEVC (H.265), AV1 |
| Camera | Image Signal Processor Name: Qualcomm Spectra™ ISP Dual 18-bit ISPs Always-sensing ISP Dual Camera: 2x 36 MP Single Camera: Up to 64 MP Video Capture: 4K HDR |
| Wi-Fi/Bluetooth | Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System: Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7800 System Generations: Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6 Standards: 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11n, 802.11g, 802.11b, 802.11a Spectral Bands: 6 GHz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz Spatial Streams: Up to 4 Peak QAM: 4K QAM Features: Passpoint, 8×8 Sounding, TDLS, Wi-Fi QoS Management, Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity, Wi-Fi Location, OFDMA (UL/DL), Miracast, Target Wake Time, Voice-Enterprise, MU-MIMO (UL/ DL), Multi-Link Operation (MLO), High-band Simultaneous (HBS) Bluetooth Specification Version: Bluetooth 5.4 Bluetooth Connection Technology: Bluetooth LE M.2. Interface: WiFi M.2. card over PCIe Gen 3 |
| USB | USB Specification Version: USB 4.0 Interface Type: 3x USB-C 3x USB4, 2x USB3.2 Gen2, 1x eUSB2 |
Windows PCs based on Snapdragon X Elite are expected to be released in mid-2024.
