The Snapdragon X Plus is a scaled-back variant of the top-tier Snapdragon X Elite chipset. It features 10 Oryon CPU cores, running at 3.4 GHz, and its Adreno GPU delivers 3.8 TFLOPS of performance. Both the Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus include the Hexagon NPU, delivering up to 45 TOPS of performance.
Qualcomm has officially unveiled the Snapdragon X Plus chipset for PCs. This chipset, part of the Snapdragon X series, features 10 Oryon CPU cores, which were long-awaited from Qualcomm’s development pipeline. The Snapdragon X Plus serves as a more modest iteration of the Snapdragon X Elite, with some performance adjustments in both CPU and GPU capabilities.
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The Snapdragon X Plus comes in a single variant (X1P-64-100) with a maximum multithreaded frequency of up to 3.4GHz. Unlike other variants, it doesn’t feature a dual-core boost. Its Adreno GPU delivers up to 3.8 TFLOPS of performance and supports LPDDR5X memory. The chipset is built on TSMC’s 4nm process node.
Although the CPU and GPU see slight downgrades, the Hexagon NPU maintains consistency between the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus processors. With the ability to handle 45 trillion operations per second (TOPS), the NPU’s performance remains impressive.
According to Qualcomm, the Hexagon NPU boasts the capability to locally run AI models and produce outputs at 30 tokens per second. Furthermore, the NPU can generate code from Codegen, create original music in Audacity utilizing the Riffusion model, and provide live caption translations in OBS Studio across 100 languages.
Per Qualcomm, the Snapdragon X Plus, while slightly less potent than the premium Snapdragon X Elite, offers 37% faster CPU performance compared to the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H. Additionally, it consumes 54% less power while maintaining peak performance akin to the x86 processor.
Overall, there are four Snapdragon X series variants, with the Snapdragon X Plus sporting 10 CPU cores clocked up to 3.4GHz. In the Geekbench 6.2 test, its CPU achieves approximately 2400 in the single-core test and around 13,000 in the multi-core test.
In my view, Qualcomm has positioned the Snapdragon X Plus processor as a budget option. Nevertheless, its performance competes with the Apple M2 Pro and base Apple M3, which is quite impressive.
