Snapdragon X Plus with eight cores: New chipset makes AI notebooks more affordable
4.9.2024
Translation: machine translated
The Snapdragon X Plus 8-core is designed to make Copilot+ PCs more affordable. While the AI performance remains unchanged, the graphics power is significantly reduced.
Like the other Snapdragon X chipsets, the new X Plus with eight computing cores is also expected to achieve 45 TOPS with its NPU (AI chip). However, it has fewer and sometimes lower clocked computing cores available for classic computing tasks.
Same performance with NPU, slightly less with CPU and much less with GPU
As the name of the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core suggests, its CPU has eight processing cores. The previous Snapdragon X Plus has ten, while the Elite variants even have twelve. The most important feature of the system-on-a-chip is not affected by the reduced number. As with all models, its Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which is responsible for AI applications, is expected to achieve 45 TOPS.
In addition to two fewer cores, there are further reductions in the CPU: Its cache is reduced from 42 to 30 megabytes. The single-core performance of up to 3.4 GHz is identical to the previous Snapdragon X Plus. The multi-core performance of 3.2 GHz is slightly lower than the 10-core chipset, which offers 3.4 GHz.
Header image: Qualcomm
Jan Johannsen
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Jan.Johannsen@galaxus.deAs a primary school pupil, I used to sit in a friend's living room with many of my classmates to play the Super NES. Now I get my hands on the latest technology and test it for you. In recent years at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, now at Digitec and Galaxus.
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