After over two years, Qualcomm's Nuvia acquisition is finally bearing fruit with new Snapdragon X series chips for PC platforms. Alongside the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Qualcomm has come up with a new PC chipset that can compete with Apple's M-series processor. The "Snapdragon X Elite" chipset features Nuvia-designed cores and is poised to take down x86 Intel/AMD processors in the PC world.

This would be the first time Qualcomm has used newly designed cores called "Oryon" instead of Kryo cores in PCs. Efficiency is something x86 processors have disappointed Windows users for a long time, but with the Snapdragon X Elite, things will change significantly. So to learn more about Qualcomm's new PC chipset, read on.

The Snapdragon X Elite features new Oryon cores designed by the Nuvia team, inside Qualcomm. It has 12 high-performance cores and is built on TSMC's 4nm process node. All cores have a maximum frequency of 3.8 GHz and for intensive tasks, two cores can increase the clock speed up to 4.3 GHz. It has a tri-cluster design with four cores packed into 3 trays.

Qualcomm has managed to add 42MB of total cache to the Snapdragon X Elite. The CPU has access to eight channels of LPDDR5X memory with a bandwidth of 136GBps, which is amazing. According to the company, the Snapdragon X Elite delivers 2x faster CPU performance than an x86 12-core laptop processor and matches peak performance at a third of the power consumption.