Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X2 Plus for cheaper laptops

Back in September, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chipsets for Windows on Arm laptops, and today it's introducing the cheaper option in the portfolio, the Snapdragon X2 Plus. This is the successor to the Snapdragon X Plus from September 2024.

The Snapdragon X2 Plus uses the third generation Oryon CPU and it has an 80 TOPS NPU. It's made on a 3nm process. It comes in two versions - 10-core and 6-core. The 10-core version has 34MB of total cache, and a maximum multithread frequency of 4GHz. The 6-core version obviously has six CPU cores, with 22MB total cache, and the same maximum 4GHz frequency.

The two share the same X2-45 GPU, but in the 10-core version it's clocked at up to 1.7GHz, whereas the six-core option has to make do with 900MHz. Both support LPDDR5X RAM and have the same NPU with 80 TOPS, which Qualcomm says is the fastest in a laptop.

The company promises no drop in performance when on battery, as well as "multi-day battery life" but that obviously depends on what size cells laptop makers will use. Speaking of which, the first laptops with the Snapdragon X2 Plus are expected to hit the market by the end of June.

The Snapdragon X2 Plus delivers up to 35% faster CPU single-core performance than the X Plus, while using 43% less power. There's also Wi-Fi 7 on board, Bluetooth 5.4, optional 5G, and support for 128GB of RAM.

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