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First Tests! The Snapdragon X Elite 'Oryon' Chip Is Ready to Be a Star in 2024 Laptops
30.10.2023 - 13:34 / pcmag.com / Be A
MAUI, Hawaii—Let's start with a great big caveat: This is not your conventional benchmark testing story, at least as PCMag usually does them. We attended Qualcomm's 2023 Snapdragon Summit last week, and were regaled with session after session detailing advances in on-device AI, Qualcomm's ubiquitous Snapdragon smartphone chips, news around new cross-device info sharing and synchronicity. But most of all there is "Oryon": the company’s next-generation CPU core silicon that will scale from laptops (where it will make its first appearance in the company’s Snapdragon X Elite processor next year) eventually to smartphones, automotive applications, and more.
If you haven't heard about Snapdragon X Elite and Oryon yet, you might want to check out our deeper dive on the fundamentals of the new Snapdragon X line, which is powered by that new CPU core. Laptops based on this silicon are expected in mid-2024, according to Qualcomm, and the company already has more laptop vendors onboard as hardware partners than with any other generation of Snapdragon compute silicon to date. The partner list will include Acer, Asus, Dell, Honor, HP, Lenovo, and Microsoft: pretty much a who's who of the major PC OEMs.
First, let's talk a little about the basics of Snapdragon X Elite, and run through Qualcomm's testing scenario as it was presented to us, and how we'll assess it. The testing regimen we saw was “hands-off”: a ballroom full of reference-design laptops containing the Snapdragon X Elite, all looking identical but configured in two representative system power levels.
Snapdragon X Elite is the first iteration of Qualcomm's next-generation compute system-on-a-chip (SoC), slated to succeed the Snapdragon 8cx, 8cx Gen 2, and 8cx Gen 3. The 8cx Gen 3 saw very limited uptake by hardware vendors, and Snapdragon X Elite is rebranded to make a clean break with the past.
There's lots more detail in our initial X Elite explainer story, as well as in our interview with two of Qualcomm's senior leaders on the topic. But the essentials? This is a 12-core processor made up entirely of high-performance cores, running at a peak of 3.8GHz across all cores, with the ability to boost one or two cores up to 4.3GHz. (Note that these are ceilings; an OEM can design the laptop to top out at lower frequencies depending on the thermal overhead available.) If two cores are boosted, they are selected from two different clusters of the three CPU clusters on the Oryon core. (Each cluster comprises four cores.) This is so that each thread has access to the full cache resources of each cluster.
The Snapdragon X Elite CPU is designed to be implemented in a wide range of possible laptop designs, from thin ultraportables to thicker power machines, but
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