The first day of the Snapdragon Summit focused heavily on the Snapdragon X Elite, a competitor to the Apple M2 Max for Windows PCs
A Qualcomm held this Tuesday (24) the opening event of the Snapdragon Summit 2023, where it presented the incredible Snapdragon X Elite, confirmed some details of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the Qualcomm S7 and S7 Pro audio chipsand also commented on the plans to unify several product categories under the same ecosystem called Snapdragon Seamless.
- Snapdragon X Elite debuts surpassing M2 Max and Core i9 13980HX
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 arrives with gains of up to 30% and great attention to artificial intelligence
In addition to the main presentation made largely by CEO and president Cristiano Amon, we had some demos that give us a better idea of ​​what to expect from the new components, as well as the presentation of benchmarks carried out on reference notebooks which indicate a performance that has even exceeded Qualcomm’s expectations for its latest chip dedicated to PCs, which we will talk about in the next paragraphs.
Snapdragon 8th generation AI?
Qualcomm itself joked during the presentation video of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 by saying that the device could be called “Snapdragon 8 Gen AI”, such is the attention paid to Artificial Intelligence in the new generation of its mobile platform.
Going well beyond the numbers – where we had a 98% increase in NPU performance – the new chip natively brings several features that can be used by mobile phone manufacturers in their products, including video editing with object removal, night for video,global illumination processing. in games and in the local processing of the most diverse artificial intelligence models, for example with Stable Diffusion which generates images in 0.6 seconds.
The use of AI also helps with power efficiency, and even with 30% more CPU performance and 25% more GPU performance, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is cheaper than its predecessor , learning from the user and working proactively to reduce consumption and improve performance by focusing on what really matters to each person.
We’ll have even more details on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 on the second day of the Snapdragon Summit, but what we’ve seen so far indicates that users of top-of-the-line mobile phones in 2024 will be well supported, but the big revolution is expected to last until the Snapdragon event. next year, when the first mobile chip with Oryon core will be presented.
A Xiaomi took the stage to show the Xiaomi14, which will be the first commercial mobile phone with the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The company president was enthusiastic about the chip’s capabilities, stating that Xiaomi will use the full capacity of the NPU to generate truly impressive AI use cases, with a reduction of up to 20% in energy consumption. It would be great for gaming too, running Genshin Impact at nearly 60fps while keeping the temperature at just 43.2°C.
Snapdragon X Elite: great debut of Oryon cores
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 had its space, but the big star of the first day of the Snapdragon Summit was the debut of the Oryon cores. Announced at the 2022 edition of the conference, the cores are the first to bring with them technology developed by Nuvia, a startup acquired by Qualcomm in 2021 for $1.4 billion.
The snapdragon. The savings on consumption reach an incredible 70%, while the gain in terms of performance can double, according to the company.
If the Oryon core is impressive, the integrated GPU is also not left behind, managing to cope with models such as the Intel Core i7-13800H and Ryzen 9-7940HS with performance gains of up to 2x with energy savings of up to 80%.
In other words, Qualcomm promises to provide the best PC platform in terms of power consumption and performance, including not only rivals from the ARM world but also Apple but also chips for enthusiasts Intel AND OMG designed in x86, certainly powerful.
As with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, we’ve also put a strong focus on AI, with the promise of 75 TOPS of performance in the Snapdragon X Elite, which basically means the chip will be able to handle AI processing models heavy, ranging from generative AI for images and text to features focused on video calls, image editing and more.
According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon X Elite is compatible with several popular AI models for local computing, including Llama 2 by ObjectiveStable diffusion and Whisper as well Microsoft, Google and several Chinese companies.
The elephant in the room called Windows on ARM
On this first day of the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm wants to make it clear to everyone that it is working very intensively with Microsoft to make the Windows on ARM experience more stable and optimized, the biggest Achilles’ heel of the system so far.
We have seen more than once executives from the owner of Windows take the stage to talk about the collaboration between the two, with the arrival of Microsoft apps running natively on ARM platforms and important developments in emulation so that programs still based on x86 can run More efficient.
PC makers like it Lenovo AND HP signed the refrain, stating that Qualcomm’s new chip will be able to revolutionize the user experience with new design possibilities, great performance and a battery “that lasts days”. However, this is something that we will have to wait to see in practice, something that has not yet been possible on this first day of the event.
So far we’ve only had a demo aimed at PCs with the Snapdragon X Elite, where you use a notebook to edit photos and videos taken with a smartphone that uses a Qualcomm chip. The process went naturally and smoothly, as expected, and didn’t become something that could be defined as a yardstick for comparison with the chips Qualcomm mentioned at the event.
Snapdragon Seamless and Qualcomm S7
Finally, we also had some demonstrations of Snapdragon Seamless, Qualcomm’s proposal for a connected ecosystem between mobile phones, smartwatches, VR/AR glasses and PCs. The idea is to offer something like Apple e SAMSUNG what to do with their products, but without depending on a brand or a specific operating system, but only on the chip used.
A Honor took the stage to demonstrate cross-device image editing, where the file goes from the tablet to the notebook, is edited and then transferred to the mobile phone where it is published on social media. Everything happens intuitively and you can use touch control on the screen or even a keyboard and mouse to control all the devices involved.
Qualcomm also talked a bit about the S7 and S7 Pro audio chips, which focus on artificial intelligence to deliver better active noise cancellation, spatial audio, and power efficiency, promising very low power consumption even at high transfer speeds.
One of the highlights is the integrated use of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, where the device can move between networks to always deliver the lowest latency and best sound quality, taking advantage of your home network to always be connected.
Products with the new audio chips of the Qualcomm S7 series should arrive on the market over the next year, while Snapdragon Seamless is already on board with the chips announced on this first day of the Snapdragon Summit 2023 and should acquire the first features for the end consumer . before the end of the year.
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