Tired of theso-called AI PCsalready?
Buckle up because we, or perhaps the artificial intelligence, havent even begun to peak.
More power-efficient ARM-based CPUs dont get nearly as much limelight as the x86 throw in.
Do chips get you excited? How about an ARM-based Qualcomm CPU meant to compete with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H?Photo: Kyle Barr / Gizmodo
The Snapdragon X Elite is already boasting it will outmatch Intels x86 chips performance, requiring much less power.
Gizmodo had the opportunity to test some of these benchmarks on Qualcomm-made test machines.
It can also be compared to Apples M3 chip, perhaps with a little less gusto.
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It will also be WiFi 7 compatible and enable capture with up to a 4K HDR webcam.
Whats much harder to quantify is the AI performance.
The chipmaker is claiming its NPU maxes at 45 TOPS, that being trillions of operations per second.
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There will be four SKUs in total for the Snapdragon X brand in 2024.
I cant imagine trying high-profile games on just the X Elite without a discrete GPU.
It has 3.8 TFLOPs of GPU performance, but it also has an equivalent NPU as the X Elite.
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