Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon X Plus SoC for PCs. The Social is built on a 4nm process node and boasts powerful on-device AI features. This chip can also be seen a direct rival to Apple, Intel, and AMD laptop processors in terms of performance.
Snapdragon X Plus is based on the same Oryon CPU that was used in Snapdragon X Elite. It has 10 10-core Qualcomm Oryon CPU. There’s also a 45 TOPS NPU that is also the world’s fastest NPU for laptops. It boasts to deliver up to 37% faster CPU performance compared to competitors and consumes up to 54% less power. The SoC supports 64GB of LPDDR5x RAM and M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD storage.
The SoC is built for AI applications. It has Qualcomm AI Engine and Hexagon NPU. The company also demonstrated a few AI-optimized applications:
- Code generation in Visual Studio Code from Codegen
- Music generation in Audacity using Riffusion on-device AI
- Live captions in OBS Studio for Snapdragon X Plus SoC live captions in 100 languages using Whisper
Snapdragon X Plus supports up to three external UHD monitors, support for streaming up to 4K HDR videos, and advanced MIPI camera support for high-quality imaging.
We can expect PCs powered by Snapdragon X Plus from mid-2024 onwards.
Qualcomm is also releasing three twelve-core Snapdragon X Elite processors running at 3.8GHz and up to a 4.6 TFLOP iGPU.
