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Meet Snapdragon X Elite: Qualcomm Touts Big AI, Compute Gains on Arm Laptop CPUs (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/12632609

Oryon (pronounced like “Orion,” the star system) in its initial offering is a 12-core Arm CPU core, custom-designed by Qualcomm, built on 64-bit architecture and 4nm process technology. It’s the successor to the Kryo used in Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (5nm process) and earlier 8cx efforts.

The overall boost clock on these 12 cores is 3.8GHz, with the ability (a bit like Intel chips with their various Turbo Boost and Turbo Boost Max technologies) to boost just one or two cores to 4.3GHz. According to Qualcomm, this limited acceleration should manifest in faster application launch times, better web browsing responsiveness, and snappier UI. The company also points out that, when in boost mode, these cores are the world’s first 4GHz-capable Arm cores.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All of this, of course, will have to be substantiated by independent benchmarks. But as further sweeteners, CEO Cristiano Amon also put forth, in the course of the keynote, a couple of other selected claims that piqued our interest:

That the Elite X will outrun the Apple Silicon-based M2 Max in single-threaded performance, as well as match the top performance of a "competitor" CPU at 30% less power consumption.

That the Elite X will top the Core i9-13980HX in single-threaded performance and match competitor peak performance at 70% less power consumption

Big if true.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Rooting for more power-efficient silicon in the laptop space to create some competition and choices. Hopefully, we'll see Linux support with these new chips. I'd also die for a Framework version, but I'm sure that's not happening for a while, if ever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

a Framework version

That would be amazing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's HUGE if true. The pricing will also be an interesting factor.