AI Titans Clash: Snapdragon X Elite vs Apple M4 vs Exynos 2500 – Which Chip Leads the AI Revolution?
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (Oryon) is built on a 4 nm process, houses 12 high‑performance Oryon cores up to 4.3 GHz, an Adreno GPU around 4.6 TFLOPs, and a Hexagon NPU up to 45 TOPS with dual micro NPUs in an always‑on sensing hub. The X Elite includes dual micro NPUs in an always‑on Sensing Hub to handle ambient AI tasks alongside the main NPU. Apple M4 uses a 3 nm (second‑gen TSMC N3E) process, with 10 CPU cores (4 performance + 6 efficiency) up to about 4.4 GHz and a 10‑core GPU featuring hardware ray tracing and mesh shading.