Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core Chipset Launch: New Features and Price

Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core Launch & Features

Qualcomm on Wednesday announced the launch of the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core CPU, ahead of the upcoming IFA 2024 event in Berlin. The new Snapdragon chipset is a more affordable variant of the company's 10-core Arm-based laptop processors launched earlier this year, and it is built on the same 4nm process technology. The chipset is also equipped with the same Oryon CPU cores as the company's other X series processors, and it supports on-device artificial intelligence (AI) applications and features.

Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core Features

• The octa-core Snapdragon X Plus chipset is equipped with eight of Qualcomm's Oryon CPU cores with 30MB CPU cache — 12MB less than the more expensive X Plus chips.
• Supports up to 64GB LPDDR5X RAM.
• X1P-42-100 variant has a peak clock speed of 3.2GHz and a 1.7 TFLOPS Adreno GPU, while the X1P-46-100 chip has a peak clock speed of 3.4GHz and a 2.1 TFLOPS GPU.

The Adreno GPU on the Snapdragon X Plus processors supports up to three external displays at 4K resolution with a 60Hz refresh rate. Meanwhile, the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU is capable of 45 trillion operations per second (TOPS) for on-device AI features.

Enhanced Connectivity & Availability

Qualcomm confirms that the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chip supports PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD or UFS 4.0 storage and can handle up to 36-megapixel cameras with 4K HDR video capture.

Moreover, the Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF system on the processor enables support for mmWave and Sub-6GHz 5G networks with up to 10Gbps download speeds. Devices can also feature Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support.

Computers powered by the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chipset will be available starting today, from OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung. Pricing for these laptops will start at $799.