We ran some early benchmarks on reference units to see how Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite chip stacks up to the competition.

The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme are a pair of PC chips aimed at the performance laptop market. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, ...

On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced three new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme processors for PCs, pushing into what it calls “ultra-premium PCs” with a 5GHz CPU and an NPU delivering an industry ...

The Snapdragon X2 Elite is Qualcomm’s boldest PC chip yet, boasting longer runtimes, faster speeds, and performance that can rival Apple’s M4. Qualcomm promises multi-day battery life for laptops, ...

The new flagship chip, based on the Oryon architecture and largely destined for AI-forward, pro-grade laptops, will feature an 80 TOPS NPU. Also incoming in 2026: two new X2 Elite premium processors.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite is once again threatening to upend the PC CPU market. About two years ago, Qualcomm debuted the Snapdragon X1 Elite, an Arm chip that replaced the company’s mediocre ...

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 may be the best new chipset in the Android realm, but Qualcomm is also establishing itself on the PC side with its X Elite series chips. The Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 ...

While the debate over ARM and x86 is probably going to go on indefinitely, I'm looking past that noise and focusing on what Snapdragon X2 Elite is capable of and where it can go.

Qualcomm is finally ready to start competing with Apple's M-series of chips, nearly five years after the M1 made its debut in 2020. While the Snapdragon X series has been fairly successful in terms of ...

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 generation initially consists of three Elite models. The top model with Extreme suffix shows great performance in initial benchmarks. In the course of this year's Snapdragon ...