Qualcomm launches Snapdragon X Plus for PCs running Windows 11 ARM

Just as promised, Qualcomm today officially launched Snapdragon X Plus, a completely new processor developed specifically for Windows PCs on ARM architecture. The platform promises 'outstanding performance', optimal energy efficiency and powerful AI support across all devices.

Unleash the power of next-generation PC AI with the new Snapdragon® X Plus Platform. Snapdragon with battery life lasting many days.

Snapdragon X Plus (codename X1P-64-100) is currently Qualcomm's line of processor chips oriented for the popular laptop segment. This is essentially a 10-core processor based on the Oryon CPU architecture. It includes six high-performance cores and four low-power cores operating at up to 3.4GHz, combined with 42MB cache and up to 64GB LPDDR5X memory with a maximum transfer speed of 8448. MT/s.

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As a product aimed at the PC AI market, Snapdragon X Plus will naturally also come with an integrated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to handle specialized AI-related tasks. Qualcomm says this NPU can produce AI performance of up to 45 tera operations per second (TOPS, or the number of operations it can solve in a second). On the graphics side, the Adreno GPU in the Snapdragon 5K 60Hz screen.

Snapdragon X Plus is the newest member to join the Snapdragon X family. Before that there was the more powerful Snapdragon X Elite model, designed for Windows PCs. Below is a table comparing configurations of Snapdragon X processors.

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According to Qualcomm, the first devices using the Snapdragon world running Snapdragon X Plus chip.

Micah Soto

Update 25 April 2024