Qualcomm’s Snapdragon This new SoC, which was introduced after Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia, seeks to compete with the Apple M2 and M3 processors, offering competitive performance in AI applications thanks to its Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, capable of reaching 45 TOPS.
This capability translates to 30 tokens per second performance in generative AI chatbots, enabling advanced AI models to run locally, without relying on the cloud. The chip is especially effective at tasks such as generating code in Visual Studio Code, creating music in Audacity, and automatically generating subtitles in OBS Studio. Made with 4nm technology, the Snapdragon X Plus also has an Adreno GPU with a performance of 3.8 TFLOPs, comparable to that of an Xbox Series S, and supports the connection of up to three external 4K displays.
Although its CPU, the 10-core Qualcomm Oryon and up to 3.4 GHz, is less powerful than that of the Snapdragon X Elite, it is still remarkably efficient.
This SoC also includes support for 5G, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, AV1 encoding and decoding, and the Snapdragon Sound technology suite. The first laptops equipped with this chip are expected in mid-2024, marking an important milestone in local AI processing capability in portable devices.