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With the unveiling last week of the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, we may need to start calling the original Snapdragon X chips “X1” for clarity. And more than that, we might well have to call the new X2 chips something else entirely: “X-traordinary.”

In a benchmark-performance preview at the Qualcomm Summit, the new top-end chip, the X2 Elite Extreme, put up numbers that may well give competitors like AMD and Intel night terrors. 

The X2 Elite Extreme is positioned as Qualcomm’s new flagship mobile-compute SoC for creators and power users. It will have 18 cores split into 12 high-speed “Prime” cores (up to 4.4GHz, with two cores able to boost to 5GHz) and six lower-power cores (now, confusingly, called “Performance” cores) at 3.6GHz.

Beyond raw CPU horsepower, Qualcomm is pushing hard on AI and GPU acceleration. All three of the new X2 chips feature a next-generation Adreno GPU, which the company claims delivers 2.3 times better performance-per-watt than the integrated GPU on the first-gen Snapdragon X Elite, plus support for Vulkan 1.4 and DirectX 12.2 Ultimate. 

Just as significant is the new version of Qualcomm’s Hexagon neural processor, or NPU, incorporated into X2. It is rated for 80 trillion operations per second, or TOPS – far above the TOPS ratings of the NPUs in AMD’s and Intel’s best current mobile silicon (as well as Qualcomm’s, for that matter). 

We had the chance to put the X2 Elite Extreme under initial testing at Snapdragon Summit 2025. (It’s worth noting that our testing took place under controlled conditions with Qualcomm staff overseeing setup and execution, and using benchmarks chosen by the company). Real-world testing of the X2 Elite Extreme (and the X2 Elite) in retail machines is what to wait for, as always. 

Read the full article at our link in bio.

#snapdragonsummit #x2elite #x2eliteextreme #qualcomm #techreview

📸: John Burek/PCMag

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