Qualcomm aims to carry its success in smartphones to the computer sector. The company’s newly launched Snapdragon X Plus is heating up the competition in the industry. Snapdragon processors are a guarantee of high performance in phones; now they are making an appearance in the PC market with the same reliability.
Snapdragon X Plus Specifications and Performance
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The Elite model, the first member of the Snapdragon X series, attracted attention with its impressive performance. The new chip X Plus takes the features of the Elite model even further. Compared to the Snapdragon X Elite, the X Plus model does not compromise on performance despite the core count dropping from 12 to 10. With its Hexagon NPU chip, X Plus reaches 45 TOPS of processing capacity, while its Adreno GPU offers up to 3.8 TFLOPs of processing power. CPU performance is also impressive with 42MB of cache memory.
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The new X Plus supports connectivity technologies such as X65 5G, Wi-Fi 6, 6E, 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. According to Qualcomm, the X Plus chip beats Apple’s M3 by 10 percent in multi-core tests, but lags slightly behind in single-core performance. According to Tom’s Hardware’s tests, the X Plus scored 2400 points, while the M3 processor scored 3082 points.
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In the Intel benchmark, the X Plus proves to be 37 percent faster than the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H in multi-core tests. In Cinebench tests, the X Plus performs better using fewer resources than Intel.
Snapdragon X Series Launch and Expectations
The Snapdragon X series is expected to launch in mid-2024. Although it is not yet clear which computer models it will be included in, this new chip of Qualcomm seems to have an important place in the computer market.