Qualcomm’s 5GHz Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Obliterates Apple M4, Intel & AMD in Early Benchmarks
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme PC chips at its 2025 Snapdragon Summit, featuring up to 18 cores, 5.0 GHz peak clocks, and support for 48 GB LPDDR5X RAM. In benchmarks, the X2 Elite Extreme outperformed Apple’s M4 and doubled Intel’s top mobile chips in multi-core tests. The new Adreno X2‑90 GPU delivered up to 80% faster performance than its predecessor. The Hexagon NPU reached 80 TOPS in AI compute.