Subj : Qualcomm's most powerful CPU ever will target AMD's Ryzen AI+ 395
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Sun Sep 28 2025 11:30:07

Qualcomm's most powerful CPU ever will target AMD's Ryzen AI+ 395 with 128GB 
onboard LPDDR5X memory - while Intel has only 32GB integrated memory to 
contend with

Date:
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:28:00 +0000

Description:
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon X2 Elite and Extreme with up to 18 cores, 128GB 
memory, ray tracing graphics, and 80 TOPS AI.

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's new X2 Elite Extreme has 18 cores, 5.0GHz boost and 128GB LPDDR5X RAM X2 
Elite has 12 cores, 4.7GHz boost and the same memory at lower bandwidth Both 
chips add Adreno GPUs with ray tracing, and multi display support 

Qualcomm has taken the wraps off its latest processors for Windows notebooks 
and PCs. 

The Snapdragon X2 Elite and the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme are set to 
compete with AMD's Ryzen AI+ 395 and offer a significant boost over previous 
generation chips. 

The X2 Elite Extreme is the flagship version, with higher core counts, faster 
clock speeds and stronger AI performance than the standard Elite model. Boost 
to 5.0GHz 

The chip features up to 18 Oryon CPU cores, with 12 prime and 6 performance 
cores built on TSMCs 3nm process. 

Two of the prime cores can boost to 5.0GHz, making it the first Arm-based 
consumer processor to hit that speed. 

The chip supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X-9523 memory with 228GB/s bandwidth 
and 53MB of cache. 

In comparison, the standard X2 Elite has up to 12 cores on TSMCs 4nm process. 

It supports the same 128GB memory capacity but at lower bandwidth, and its 
peak boost is 4.7GHz on one core. Cache is reduced to 34MB. 

AI processing is another area of difference. The Extremes NPU delivers up to 
80 TOPS, nearly double the 45 TOPS of the X2 Elite. 

Qualcomm says this level of acceleration is designed for Copilot+ PCs, 
allowing multiple AI workloads to run on-device at the same time. 

Graphics performance also gets an upgrade. The Extreme has the Adreno X2-90 
GPU, while it's Adreno X2-85 for the Elite. 

Both add hardware-based ray tracing for the first time and support for 
DirectX 12.2 Ultimate, Vulkan and OpenCL 3.0. 

The chips can drive up to three 4K external displays at 144Hz or two 5K 
monitors at 60Hz, and connectivity includes Wi-Fi 7 via FastConnect 7800 and 
optional 5G with the Snapdragon X75 modem, with I/O packing PCIe 5.0 on the 
Extreme, PCIe 4.0 on the Elite, plus NVMe SSDs, UFS 4.0 and multiple USB4 
ports. 

The first notebooks featuring Qualcomms new X2 Elite and Elite Extreme chips 
are set to arrive in the first half of 2026 - and the first benchmarks for 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/qualcomms-most-powerful-cpu-ever-will-target-amd
s-ryzen-ai-395-with-128gb-onboard-lpddr5x-memory-while-intel-has-only-32gb-int
egrated-memory-to-contend-with


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