NVIDIA continues to push the AI envelope with its strong TensorRT-LLM suite, boosting the H200 GPUs to new heights in the latest MLPerf v4.0 results.
08.03.2024 - 17:53 / wccftech.com / Hassan Mujtaba
Qualcomm's next-gen Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus CPU lineup for Windows AI PCs has been exposed in the latest driver leak.
Ever since Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X Elite CPUs for Windows AI PCs, they have taken the market by storm. The Arm-based chips are poised to give some heated competition to others in the space such as Apple, Intel, and AMD. Based on the latest drivers, it looks like Qualcomm will be offering its chips in 8 diverse flavors, each having its own specific set of core, clock, and power limit configurations. The lineup was listed over at Baidu Forums and includes:
The specifications of these chips aren't known but we know that at least one configuration, the top X Elite X1E80100 features 12 cores (8 Performance + 4 Efficiency) with a peak clock of 4.3 GHz & has been spotted in leaked benchmarks before. The chip was very competitive against the existing CPU stack from the competition. From what we can guess, the Snapdragon X Elite variants could use the full 12-core configurations while the X Plus can either be lower-spec'd (4-8 Cores) or feature vastly lower clock/power targets.
One thing is for sure and that's that Qualcomm has a full-fledged lineup prepped up for launch and wants to make a big entry within the Windows AI PC segment with its Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus lineup of chips. Other details include support for the latest Qualcomm Adreno GPU which should also come with different configurations respective to the SKU it is featured on. Furthermore, this driver also shows that the Adreno GPU is compliant with all the latest APIs such as DX11, DX12, and OpenGL.
As a recap, the Qualcomm Snapdragon PC CPUs will utilize the Oryon CPU core architecture that is based on the TSMC 4nm process node and offer up to 42 MB of cache, a powerful NPU in the package which offers a combined 75 TOPs of AI processing power and the aforementioned Adreno GPU with 4.6 TFLOPs of peak FP32 performance. The chips will feature support for up to 64GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory, PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSDs and support the latest IO such as the WIFI7 and BT 5.4 wireless solutions.
The Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus CPUs are expected to hit shelves in the first notebooks around the middle of 2024 and we have already seen one Lenovo laptop leak out ahead of launch which rocks
NVIDIA continues to push the AI envelope with its strong TensorRT-LLM suite, boosting the H200 GPUs to new heights in the latest MLPerf v4.0 results.
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