It feels like we've been talking about Snapdragon X Elite for a while. It was announced back in October and has seen its fair share of performance leaks. But, for the first time, Qualcomm let us run some tests on the chip.
At a press event in New York, I was able to actually take a look at some laptops using the X Elite in Qualcomm's striking red reference design. Of course, there are some caveats — the tests were pre-selected and preinstalled. Everything was running in Qualcomm's carefully prepared environment. There were many laptops, but of the ones I checked, they were running on Windows 11's balanced performance profile.
In fact, there were multiple configurations going around. Most interesting is that there were three versions of Qualcomm's processor floating around:
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100, paired with 16GB of RAM
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E84100, paired with 64GB of RAM
- Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100, paired with 32GB of RAM (this machine was being used for AI demos)
