Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus specifications and performance leak out

Snapdragon X Plus with 10 cores

Qualcomm has held a press event where the new X Plus series was showcased.

Qualcomm set to make the official announcement of its X Plus series tomorrow. The key detail is that the X Plus will come with 10 Oryon cores, a reduction from the 12 cores found in the X Elite series.

Qualcomm has disclosed four Snapdragon X SKUs: X1E-84-100, X1E-80-100, X1E-78-100, and X1P-64-100. Here, the “1” denotes the generation, while “E” indicates a tier (Elite/Plus), and the numbers such as 84/78 represent the SKU. The last three digits are set to define a variant, though it appears that all current samples use 100.

In terms of specifications, the X Elite will boast 12 cores with a maximum multi-threaded frequency of either 3.4 or 3.8 GHz. Only two SKUs will support a Dual-Core Boost frequency of either 4.2 or 4.0 GHz. The flagship X1E-84-100 model will feature the highest frequencies and the fastest Adreno GPU, offering up to 4.6 TFLOPS of performance. Other SKUs will deliver 3.8 TFLOPS of performance.

Snapdragon X Elite & X Plus Specs, Source: Qualcomm/VideoCardz

For comparison, the AMD Radeon 780M boasts 8.3 TFLOPS (though this is RDNA Dual-Issue, so half should be considered), and the Core Ultra 100 Arc GPU reaches up to 4.6 TFLOPS (128EU/Core Ultra 9 185H).

Qualcomm has provided benchmarks for comparison. If we average the data from ranges and compare Elite to Plus, the former is expected to be around 17% faster on average. The most significant difference is observed in the Cinebench 2024 multi-threaded score, where the Elite variant appears to be approximately 40% faster.