On October 25, Qualcomm released two chip flagships - the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 for mobile phones and the Snapdragon X Elite for PCs.。

Samsung - the first person to eat crab (Snapdragon X Elite)

Now, the first products equipped with these two chips have also been exposed。

There is no suspense on the phone side, the first to carry the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will be the Xiaomi 14 series, which will be on sale on October 26.。

In terms of running score measurements, although the Snapdragon 8 Gen3's single-core running score is not yet comparable to that of the A17 Pro, its multi-core running score has been able to lead the A17 Pro in the test.。It seems that this CPU and GPU are increased by more than 20%, NPU performance directly doubled the product is indeed worthy of the name。

Interestingly, on the day of the Xiaolong Summit, Lu Weibing, president of Xiaomi Mobile, also appeared on the scene in surprise, took out the long-prepared Xiaomi 14 from his pocket, and severely brushed the wave of presence..

On the PC side, unlike Xiaomi's high-profile publicity, I believe many spectators don't know who will end up with the first news that the PC product equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite will end up being spent.。

Now, this question finally has an answer: today, the well-known electronic science and technology intelligence website SAMMOBILE revealed that, according to the PC OEM partner memorandum released by Qualcomm, Samsung has confirmed that they are about to launch a PC product equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite chip, snatching the first person to eat crabs.。

Snapdragon X Elite chip & Galaxy Book 4 Ultra - the perfect match

How powerful is the Snapdragon X Elite chip?？

According to Qualcomm, the chip uses a self-developed Oryon CPU, 4nm process, with 12 cores and a dominant frequency of 3.8GHz and supports dual-core turbo up to 4.3GHz。In terms of performance, the Oryon CPU's single-core performance has surpassed Apple's M2 Max, reducing power consumption by 30% when reaching peak M2 Max performance.。Compared with i9-13980HX, Oryon CPU's single-core performance is also leading, and the energy consumption to reach i9-13980HX peak performance is reduced by 70%。

In terms of multi-core performance, the performance of Oryon CPU is twice that of i7-1360P, and the energy consumption is reduced by 68% when the peak performance is reached.。Compared with i7-13800H, the performance is improved by 60% and the energy consumption is reduced by 65%。Performance also improved by 50% compared to M2。In terms of GPU, Snapdragon X Elite uses Adreno GPU, which improves performance by 2 times and reduces power consumption by 74% compared with i7-13800H。80% more GPU performance and 80% less power consumption compared to Ryzen9-7940HS。

The most prominent highlight of this chip is its AI computing power。Snapdragon X Elite combines the performance of CPU, GPU and NPU to achieve up to 75TOPS of computing power, relying only on NPU can also achieve 45TOPS of computing power。According to estimates, Snapdragon X Elite supports generative AI models with more than 13 billion parameters running on the terminal side.。

SAMMOBILE says the chip and Samsung's next-generation laptop, the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra, are a "perfect match" for two reasons。

First, Samsung has launched the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra laptop earlier this year, which is also Samsung's first laptop named after the Ultra, in the past, Samsung only used the Ultra name in its top flagship machine and top tablet.。Currently, this Galaxy Book 3 Ultra is equipped with an Intel Core i9-13900H chip, but as an Ultra product, the obviously better-performing Snapdragon X Elite is eligible to join Samsung's laptop top camp。

Second, the addition of Snapdragon X Elite can greatly improve Samsung's device interaction experience。According to Qualcomm, as long as the user's electronic devices are equipped with Snapdragon chips, the user's device interaction experience will be greatly improved.。Qualcomm's original words are that as long as the user builds a Snapdragon ecosystem on the device, whether it is Android or Windows, the user experience will be no less than Apple.。In fact, in recent years, Qualcomm has indeed produced a lot of "black technology" in device interaction, including a revolutionary XPAN technology, which, according to the introduction, enables devices to transmit lossless sound quality to earplugs using Wi-Fi.。

In addition, if Samsung wants to introduce the Snapdragon X Elite chip in the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra, it actually has an ecological basis, and Samsung's Galaxy Z series folding phones are currently equipped with the Snapdragon chip.。If the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra is equipped with a Snapdragon X Elite, it is expected that Samsung Eco's device productivity will be greatly improved.。

Qualcomm will launch Samsung customized version of Xiaolong X Elite？

Interestingly, although both Qualcomm and Samsung have "tacitly" introduced the Snapdragon X Elite chip to the Galaxy Book 4 Ultra in the future, there is no Samsung name among the OEMs that Qualcomm shares will be equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite chip in mid-2024.。

But markets need not panic。The analysis said that this "episode" will not affect Samsung's plan to introduce the first batch of Snapdragon X Elite chips, because Samsung often "plays missing" on Qualcomm's supply list.。For example, even though Samsung already has Snapdragon chips on a number of mobile phone products, Samsung's name has barely appeared on Qualcomm's phone chip supply list.。

In fact, Samsung seems to have been lying in Qualcomm's VIP supply channels, the two sides seem to have signed a confidentiality agreement, often supplying some internal products.。For example, in February this year, Qualcomm also specially for Samsung "customized" a mobile phone chip products - Samsung version of the Xiaolong 8 Gen 2, although also Xiaolong 8 Gen 2, but this chip than the market ordinary 8 Gen 2 slightly overclocked。

So, this time Samsung was not announced by Qualcomm supply list may still be a good thing？We can expect that Qualcomm will also launch a specially customized version of the Snapdragon X Elite for Samsung next year.。