At its recent summit 2025 program, Qualcomm took stage to announce its next generation laptop chipset: Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme.
I am closely following Qualcomm’s visit through the laptop industry as the company launched the first generation of Snapdragon Hardware in 2024. These chipset balance the performance with energy efficiency, allowing the host computers to last for the whole day. Looking at the preliminary information, the second generation is improving the board.
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Most of the data we have only belong to Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, so this will be our main focus. According to Qualcomm, the platform will include the new third generation 18-core Oyyan processor, a modified Adreno GPU, and an 80 Topson NPU that provides an additional boost to the performance.
All this has been paired with LPDDR5 RAM to ensure power-teej processing speed. Further, to emphasize how much upgrade is from the extreme class, Qualcomm has also compared the benchmark results to the chipset comparing his future hardware. The results are interesting because they show that Snapdragon X2 Elite Elite Extreme is much better than the M4 chipset of Apple.
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For example, in Geekbench 6.5 multi-core test, the aristocratic extreme reached 23,491 points, while M4 scored only 15,146 points. Similarly, GPU performance is also better because the Snapdragon model hits 90.06. On the other hand, Apple’s hardware went up to 65.12. This is the same story with NPU results. The difference between two platforms is huge.
It is important to mention that Qualcomm states that its elite extreme is specially designed for ultra-pramium PC, tackling … intensive data analytics, professional media editing and scientific research “. Essentially, it will cover the same ground as an M4 MacBook model and will improve everything … at least, in theory.
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Elite Extreme Laptop will not be released until the first half of 2026. We just have to wait until those devices come out and we can see the performance interval.
For Snapdragon X2 Elite, much is not known. Qualcomm did not give a lot of information on the base chip. We know that it will be behind the extreme of the elite in terms of performance, but thanks to the 80 tops NPU, it will not be large of an interval.
