Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs as building off their X Elite laptop SoCs that shipped last year. With the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) flagship is 18 cores with a 5.0GHz single and dual core boost frequency.

Qualcomm used the Snapdragon Summit for talking up the X2 Elite SoCs today, including the 12-core X2 Elite X2E-80-100, 18-core X2 Elite X2E-88-100, and the X2 Elite Extreme X2E-96-100 with 18 cores and a 5.0GHz boost frequency. There are six performance cores across all these models while the remainder of the cores are their prime cores. With the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is a 3.6GHz multi-core max frequency and a 53MB cache. The X2-90 GPU of the X2 Elite Extreme clocks up to 1.85GHz.

The Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs are manufactured on a TSMC 3nm process.

You can learn more about the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs via [1]Qualcomm.com .

So far Qualcomm is talking up these next-gen Snapdragon SoCs for laptops with Microsoft Windows 11. So far we haven't seen any early enablement patches for the Linux kernel around the Snapdragon X2 Elite, so it will likely come at a later stage -- plus Linux developers continue working through the X Elite support and getting all features worked out for these laptops that launched last year. See my most recent Snapdragon X Elite Linux tests from earlier in the month at [2]Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Linux Performance Improving But Short Of AMD Ryzen & Intel Core Ultra .



[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/laptops-and-tablets/snapdragon-x2-elite

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x1e-september