Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus CPU lineup for Windows AI PCs has been exposed in the latest driver leak.
Qualcomm Readies At Least 8 Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus CPUs For The Windows AI PC Segment
Ever since Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X Elite CPUs for Windows AI PCs, they have taken the market by storm. The Arm-based chips are poised to give some heated competition to others in the space such as Apple, Intel, and AMD. Based on the latest drivers, it looks like Qualcomm will be offering its chips in 8 diverse flavors, each having its own specific set of core, clock, and power limit configurations. The lineup was listed over at Baidu Forums and includes:
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E84100
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E78100
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E76100
- Snapdragon X Plus X1P64100
- Snapdragon X Plus X1P62100
- Snapdragon X Plus X1P56100
- Snapdragon X Plus X1P40100
The specifications of these chips aren't known but we know that at least one configuration, the top X Elite X1E80100 features 12 cores (8 Performance + 4 Efficiency) with a peak clock of 4.3 GHz & has been spotted in leaked benchmarks before. The chip was very competitive against the existing CPU stack from the competition. From what we can guess, the Snapdragon X Elite variants could use the full 12-core configurations while the X Plus can either be lower-spec'd (4-8 Cores) or feature vastly lower clock/power targets.
One thing is for sure and that's that Qualcomm has a full-fledged lineup prepped up for launch and wants to make a big entry within the Windows AI PC segment with its Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus lineup of chips. Other details include support for the latest Qualcomm Adreno GPU which should also come with different configurations respective to the SKU it is featured on. Furthermore, this driver also shows that the Adreno GPU is compliant with all the latest APIs such as DX11, DX12, and Vulkan.
As a recap, the Qualcomm Snapdragon PC CPUs will utilize the Oryon CPU core architecture that is based on the TSMC 4nm process node and offer up to 42 MB of cache, a powerful NPU in the package which offers a combined 75 TOPs of AI processing power and the aforementioned Adreno GPU with 4.6 TFLOPs of peak FP32 performance. The chips will feature support for up to 64GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSDs and support the latest IO such as the WIFI7 and BT 5.4 wireless solutions.
The Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus CPUs are expected to hit shelves in the first notebooks around the middle of 2024 and we have already seen one Lenovo laptop leak out ahead of launch which rocks these new chips & which shows that Qualcomm has already rounded up the first OEMs that will offer the latest CPU lineup in their notebook/laptop offerings so stay tuned for more information.
2024 AI PC Platforms
| Brand Name | Intel | AMD | Intel | AMD | Qualcomm | Apple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPU Name | Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200" | Strix "Ryzen AI 300" | Meteor Lake "Core Ultra 100" | Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" | Snapdragon X Elite | M3 |
| CPU Architecture | x86 | x86 | x86 | x86 | ARM | ARM |
| CPU Process | 3nm (N3B) | 4nm (N4P) | 7nm (Intel 4) | 4nm (N4) | 4nm | 3nm |
| Max CPU Cores | 8 Cores | 12 Cores | 16 Cores | 8 Cores | 12 Cores | 16 Cores (MAX) |
| NPU Architecture | NPU | XDNA 2 NPU | NPU | XDNA 1 NPU | Hexagon NPU | In-House |
| Total AI TOPS | 120 TOPs (48 TOPS NPU) | 85 TOPS (55 TOPS NPU) | 34 TOPS (11 TOPS NPU) | 38 TOPS (16 TOPS NPU) | 75 TOPS (Peak) | 18 TOPS |
| GPU Architecture | Battlemage Arc Xe2-LPG | RDNA 3+ | Alchemist Arc Xe-LPG | RDNA 3 | Adreno GPU | In-House |
| Max GPU Cores | 8 Xe-Cores | 12 Compute Units | 8 Xe-Cores | 12 Compute Units | TBD | 40 Cores |
| GPU TFLOPs | TBD | 11.9 TFLOPs | ~4.5 TFLOPS | 8.9 TFLOPS | 4.6 TFLOPS | TBD |
| Memory Support (Max) | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5X-7500 | LPDDR5X-7467 | LPDDR5X-7500 | LPDDR5X-8533 | LPDDR5-6400 |
| Availability | 2H 2024 | 2H 2024 | Q4 2023 | Q1 2024 | Mid-2024 | Q4 2024 |
News Source: Mochamad Farido Fanani
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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