After rolling out Snapdragon X2 Elite chips last year, Qualcomm is expectedly expanding its lineup of Windows offerings with the Snapdragon X2 Plus range. Although we’re likely to see more variants in the future, Qualcomm made two SKUs official at CES 2026. There’s the X2P-64-100, which is a 10-core variant, which Qualcomm claims offers 35% higher single-core performance and 17% higher multi-core performance in Geekbench 6 than the prior-gen, and the X2P-42-100, which comes with six cores. Both sport boost speeds up to 4GHz, along with the X2-45 Adreno GPU and an NPU capable of 80 TOPS.
Compared to the first-generation Snapdragon X Plus, Qualcomm shook the specs around a bit. The two models still boost up to 4GHz, but Qualcomm went with a six-core variant for its lower-end X2 Plus SKU instead of the eight-core design we saw in the previous generation. Although Snapdragon hasn’t confirmed further variants yet, there’s a good chance we’ll see additional versions of these chips in the future.
