Qualcomm Technologies are banking all they have in the new Oryon architecture they have for PCs. We have experienced the highest-end Snapdragon X Elite on a few laptops already – then Qualcomm also has another lower-tier chip called the Snapdragon X Plus. Now, Qualcomm is releasing a more budget-friendly version called the Snapdragon X.
This new Snapdragon X platform is powered by an 8-core CPU with the Oryon architecture, but of course – it puts a heavy emphasis on AI too. Qualcomm boasts a 45 TOPS NPU for magnificent on-device AI performance. As of now, Qualcomm claims that leading OEMs will be releasing new devices with the Snapdragon X chip in early 2025.
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Mini PCs running on the Snapdragon X series are also here. There is already the Geekom mini PC that runs on the Snapdragon X Elite, but that’s the only one that I am aware of so far.
Of course, the new Snapdragon X chipsets are focusing a lot on AI too. There is one new on-device AI feature built exclusively for the Snapdragon X platform – and they’re calling it the Moises Live. It’s an audio-based application that can separate the audio into different stems, and each of them can be controlled to be at whatever volume we want. Take for example, a live show with a loud crowd but what we can to hear is the performance only – so we can dial down the crowd and listen to that crowd only. That’s the whole idea.
While all of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X platform sounds promising, we are still very worried about the compatibility issues that Windows on Arm brings. The Prism translation layer that lets us run x86 apps on Arm PCs is much better than what we had before, there will be performance loss and we still have to deal with many incompatibility issues. Even though these Snapdragon X chips are powerful enough to run games, they’re very buggy – and anything related to kernel anti-cheat is just impossible to run on these devices.
Do check out our gaming test that ran into countless issues, and a follow-up review on the XPS 13 a few months after the launch of the Snapdragon X platform.
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