#snapdragon-x2

#snapdragon-x2

HP has announced a revamped lineup of OmniBook productivity laptops at CES, including its latest AI-focused flagship Ultra model. While pricing and availability haven't yet been revealed, we know the upcoming HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is ditching its previous AMD Ryzen AI 300-series CPUs in favor of Intel's Panther Lake and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 series processors, which are expected to provide a hefty performance boost to AI-related tasks.

It's important to note that this was all tested on the X2 Elite Extreme configuration, which comes with six additional CPU cores over the standard X2 Elite. There were no X2 Elite systems to test, so we don't know what those multi-core scores will be. I've been told that GPU performance will also scale up on the X2 Elite, but we don't yet know how much faster the X2 Elite Extreme is over its sibling.

Qualcomm is making a gigantic claim right in the headline of its press release: it says these are "the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs." I'm sure Intel and AMD will have something to say about that! But for now, the company claims its 3nm chips offer up to 50 percent faster CPU performance than the previous-gen Snapdragon X Elite, while using 43 percent less power, and with up to 2.3x the GPU performance from a new 1.85GHz GPU.