Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite CPU has seen its first industry adoption, as a Geekbench listing verifies SoC's integration into a Lenovo laptop.
Qualcomm Moves Towards Industry Adoption With Its Snapdragon X Elite SKUs, Gets Featured By Lenovo
The Snapdragon X Elite series is Qualcomm's take on the PC industry, and the firm announced a wide range of SKUs in October 2023. The lineup is designed purely for the Windows AI PC market, where it will be competing against Intel & AMD while also tackling Apple's laptop chips on the ARM architectures. After receiving immense interest from the markets, it seems like we are near the point where Snapdragon X Elite CPUs will start debuting into laptops, and this time, none other than Lenovo has taken the first step.
According to a Geekbench listing, a Lenovo laptop "83ED" model has recently appeared in the database, coming with the Snapdragon X Elite-X1E78100 processor. Based on the specifications, the CPU features a 12-core count with a maximum frequency of 3.42 GHz. The CPU is labeled as the "ARMv8 (64-bit) Family 8 Model 1 Revision 201" with the "X1E78100" model number and was running on a Lenovo motherboard, suggesting that Qualcomm is indeed working towards getting things ready for official release.
There is some uncertainty associated with how specific SKUs within the Snapdragon X Elite lineup will be labeled since the benchmarking listings up till now categorize the individual CPUs with random numbers. We could see a similar naming convention as Qualcomm's mobile Snapdragon platform, which includes "Gen 1, Gen 2" labels, but that isn't certain yet. We previously saw a similar Geekbench listing of the Snapdragon Elite X "X1E80100" SKU surface up. While both variants have an equal core count, the difference may lie in individual clock speeds.
We hope to see clarity on Qualcomm's CPU lineup moving ahead, but let's focus on what the firm plans to achieve with its processors. I believe that the true essence of the Snapdragon X Elite series lies in the AI processing performance that the SKUs will come with, as just recently Qualcomm made a comparison with Intel's Core Ultra 7 155H CPU on Stable Diffusion 1.5, claiming that their CPU was able to output up to 10 times the superior performance. The dedicated NPU onboard looks much more potent than existing competitors, so Qualcomm has a significant advantage in this department.
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: ITHome
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