As Microsoft prepares for its Windows on ARM event on May 20, Qualcomm is readying the processors that will drive this revolution.
The flagship in this new range of silicon is the Snapdragon X Elite, but it also has a sidekick – the Snapdragon X Plus. Today, we have solid information about the latter chip.
The Snapdragon X Plus appeared in a Geekbench DirectML benchmark on a device codenamed OEMMN. There is no confusion about the chip – it is clearly named the Snapdragon X Plus or X1P64100.
The Qualcomm Oryon CPU is a 10-core unit with a maximum clock speed of 3.42GHz, divided into two groups – 6 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. This differs from the X Elite, which features 12 identical cores, two of them clocked higher at 4.3GHz. Another distinction is that the Plus version has a built-in X65 modem, while the X Elite requires an external one.
The machine being tested has 16GB of RAM and runs on the Windows 11 Pro Insider Preview.
The tested device is identified as OEMMN, reportedly the Microsoft Surface 10 Pro OLED model.
Microsoft unveiled the Intel Core Ultra-powered 2-in-1 on March 21, but it is expected to reveal its OLED counterpart, featuring ARM-based silicon, on May 20 during its AI event.
The Surface 10 Pro OLED will reportedly come with a base option of 16GB of RAM and a choice of either 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of storage.