Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme announced with sizeable performance and efficiency gains

"The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 may be the best new chipset in the Android realm, but Qualcomm is also establishing itself on the PC side with its X Elite series chips. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme are the latest chipsets for Windows on Arm machines and they bring sizeable gains in performance and efficiency over the first-gen Snapdragon X Elite models."

"The new X2 series consists of three chips - the X2 Elite (X2E-80-100) with a 12-core CPU, the X2 Elite (X2E-88-100) with an 18-core CPU and the X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100), which also sports 18 CPU cores. All three new chips are fabbed on TSMC's 3 nm process. Qualcomm claims the X2 Elite Extreme is built for ultra-premium Windows 11 PCs that tackle "expert-level workloads", while the regular X2 Elite is for premium PCs across "resource-intensive workloads". Qualcomm also claims "multi-day battery life" for its new chips."

"The baseline X2 Elite chip gets 6x performance CPU cores clocked at 3.4GHz and 6x prime cores at 4.0GHz that boost up to 4.7GHz. The 18-core version of the X2 Elite features 12 prime cores and 6 performance cores, split with the same max clock speeds. The X2 Elite Extreme gets faster 4.4GHz clock speeds on the prime cores, which boost up to 5.0GHz and up to 3.6GHz on the performance core side."

Three Snapdragon X2 Elite chips arrive for Windows on Arm: X2E-80-100 (12-core), X2E-88-100 (18-core) and X2E-96-100 Extreme (18-core). All chips use third-generation Qualcomm Oryon CPUs and are fabricated on TSMC's 3 nm process. Clock configurations range from 6 performance and 6 prime cores up to 12 prime plus 6 performance cores, with prime clocks reaching as high as 5.0GHz on the Extreme. Qualcomm claims 31% faster CPU performance at ISO power and 43% lower power draw versus first-gen X Elite. An upgraded Adreno GPU promises up to 2.3× performance-per-watt gains with DirectX 12.2 Ultimate, Vulkan 1.4, and OpenCL 3.0 support, and the series targets premium to ultra-premium Windows 11 laptops with claimed multi-day battery life.

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