Qualcomm Debuts Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme, Its Next-Gen Laptop Chips

Perhaps the most exciting part of the chip is the performance of the graphics: both Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 ELITE EXTREME are used new Adreno GPU brown. Qualcomm says that energy efficiency has improved by 2.3X, so we hope that this means that laptops can lead to increased performance when needed, in games or creative applications. Qualcomm says the games will take a big step forward in this next generation. Qualcomm showed a 2.2X framework planned rate The world of the killer from the assassination And 2.1X faster in Black legend Wonding. Of course, these Qualcomm laptops continue to rely exclusively on integrated graphics, which means that separate graphics processing units in gaming laptops are still at another level of performance. Snapdragon X2 Chips will also support a higher update screens, and now up to 144 Hz and up to three external 5K screens.

Finally, the company claims that there is a more powerful nervous treatment unit (NPU) with 80 peaks (trillion operations per second) of AI processing performance on the device. Snapdragon X set the first tape with 50 peaks, which was forced Apple, Intel and AMD to match its next chips. We have not yet seen AI’s processing explosion on the device for the ordinary person, but we hope that more performance will provide an incentive for developers to build more unique artificial intelligence experiences that can benefit from NPU.

Qualcomm is still proud of the “multi -day” battery life on these new chips, although the performance was the priority in the company’s product offer. This is a change from the original marketing about Snapdragon X chips of the first generation, which focused on the battery life as a basic sale point.

As always, it helps to go first. These second generation computers were announced months before the devices of competitors, which may not reach until the first quarter of 2026, facilitating comparison with the previous generation chips. INTEL is expected to launch very expected A18 chips (also known as Panther Lake) later this year, and NVIDIA’s $ 5 billion in Intel can change everything in the world of computers. Apple is also expected to appear M5 SIM next month.

A new smartphone slice

Besides the new computer chips, Qualcomm also detailed its recently announced portable chips, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. It was officially unveiled last week, but at the company’s Snapdragon Summit conference, new details were shared on how to perform these chips.

A week has almost passed since the iPhone operating in Apple A19 struck the market, but Qualcomm already claims that Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is “the fastest mobile central treatment unit in the world”, with a standard of 4.6 GHz (Apple’s A19 Pro has a speed of 4.26 GHz). Like personal computer chips, graphics and artificial intelligence processing the largest performance leaps, with a 23 percent fastest graphics processing unit, 37 percent faster than NPU. A little -core performance in your next phone may not be noticeable, but significantly faster GPU can have a greater effect on mobile games.