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when I arrived for my Snapdragon X briefing with Qualcomm I did what I

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always do and I plugged in my

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laptop I was mortified eventually they coaxed me back

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in with unfettered access to their army of partnered devices and with my

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favorite kind of sponsorship the kind where I make a video that I would have

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made anyway and my sales team gets to hit their quarterly Target seriously all

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I have to do is go over their claims about battery life AI capabilities and

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performance and show you guys some of the sick Hands-On demos Who's laughing

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now Colton

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wo without getting too far into the speeds and feeds that you can read off

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of the spec sheet Snapdragon X is manufactured on tsmc's 4 nanometer

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process and comes in two flavors Plus or

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Elite with 10 or 12 of qualcomm's Orion

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CPU cores respectively it can be equipped with up to 64 gigabyt of

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high-speed lpddr 5x system memory and it goes Toe to Toe with the best laptop

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silicon on the market all of which would be absolutely

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worthless if all it could do was run Bing Maps fortunately that is not the

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case right now before the first Snapdragon X even ships to an end user

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they're showing off video editing audio production there are over 1,00 games

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working and okay guys look I hear you these use cases and even gaming are not

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the most important thing to everyone and

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none of the designs that qualcom is announcing would really fall under video

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production workstation or gaming laptop

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but when you compare to many other types of software these ones are really really

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hard and they're working but how though

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all right let's talk compatibility if you've got a lightning fast piece of

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silicon that doesn't run anything you might as well leave it on the beach but

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with the improvements that they have made Microsoft now expects the vast

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majority of your use time to be on Native applications like Chrome teams

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Zoom blender and so much more you can find a curated list at qualcomm.com

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Windows apps which is super cool but as

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one of you so poetically put it in a recent comment I spend over 90% of my

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time not on the toilet but that last couple of percent is very important to

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me well that's where prism comes in emulation for x86 applications is built

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right into Windows and while some

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applications that need special drivers for example might not function at this

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time they are claiming that prism is competitive with Rosetta 2 meaning that

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most applications should run well enough albeit at the cost of some processing

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overhead I'm actually really looking forward to taking a much deeper look at

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this maybe something kind of like our Arc gaming live stream where you guys

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can suggest stuff for us to try at least once the editorial embargo lifts cuz I

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can't help but think processing overhead would be like you know kind of a bad

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thing on a mobile first platform right

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except if it isn't let's talk about battery life let me put it this way I

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chose this HP dragonfly Elite for my work machine because it is among the

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best endurance Windows laptops on the market at around 15 hours and HP rates

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the Snapdragon X Elite machine at

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26 oh and did I mention that the raw battery capacity of the dragonfly is 15%

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higher to say that these chips are efficient then would be an understatement of Epic Proportions

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Qualcomm claims that they can match the performance of an Intel Core Ultra 7

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while using 65% less power in single-threaded workloads or 60% less

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power in multi threaded workloads not only do they claim they can outperform

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Intel Core Ultra 7 though they even claim to beat Apple's M3 in

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multi-threaded workloads although of course we're going to have to verify

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those claims when the review embargo lifts next week all of this efficiency

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is in no small part thanks to their high level of integration just like

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qualcomm's mobile Snapdragon chips the X+ and the X Elite are systems on a chip

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or S so's and include a direct X12

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capable adreno GPU that can handle up to three concurrent current 4K external

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displays unlike some other s so's

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there's a USB controller that can hit data rates of up to 20 gbit per second

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and so much more some of which I think they should be talking about a lot more

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one of my biggest pain points on laptops is their webcams even premium devices

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get absolutely embarrassed by basic smartphones fortunately Qualcomm has

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been making the chips for those smartphones for many years and they know

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a thing or two about making their cameras look really good on almost every

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existing Windows laptop the webcam has its own ISP or image signal processor

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that's connected to the system over USB 2 giving it a pitiful 480 megabit per

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second of bandwidth on a Snapdragon X laptop the ISP is built directly into

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the S so die and it connects to the camera via a blistering 3.5 gabit per

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second over an 18-bit mppy connection

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not only is the data rate higher but it also means near dropin compatibility for

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much better phone image sensors and well

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let's just put it this way I think the results here kind of speak for

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themselves and if that wasn't enough

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what about second ISP okay this one runs

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constantly and has some really cool party tricks like the ability to

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automatically unlock and lock your system to enhance security and an API

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that would allow app developers to build functionality like automatically turning

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off your camera in a video call if another face was detected say for the

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privacy of your children the other big integration is qualcomm's Cutting Edge

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npu or neural Processing Unit it's rated at 45 tops of performance making it the

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first processor to meet the 40 tops minimum for Microsoft co-pilot plus

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which in a nutshell means that you can do AI stuff directly on your device

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rather than relying entirely on the cloud where speed privacy and cost

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remain outstanding questions a lot of the stuff is just kind of fun um

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co-creator and paint allows you to draw an image write a description select a

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style dial up or down the creativity and

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it'll spit out an AI image this is really cool also have you ever been a DJ

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and needed to isolate a particular instrument in a song without access to

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the stems wait that's really specific are we trying that

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okay drums huh all right we'll add

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base keyboards I don't want drums okay how about vocals hit that

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button off it also includes the ability to

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instantly translate and caption audio from the 40 supported languages or

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control your device using gestures to help improve accessibility obvious

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winners all around so far one of

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Microsoft's biggest and most controversial pushes with the npu is

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recall which records everything that you've done on your computer and makes

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it searchable so let's say you looked at a picture of a cute dog a couple days

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ago but you don't remember if it was in an email or if it was on Reddit well

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recall can bring up every time you looked at dogs recently this does come

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with some concerns about privacy but Microsoft says it'll be okay because

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everything is stored and processed on device with no need to send any of the

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data to the cloud if that doesn't completely satisfy you I 100% get you

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and they do allow it to be disabled both in specific apps or systemwide coming

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back to other non Windows applications they are using their npu to power this

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pretty cool demo in dentu resolve where they can use their npu to do things like

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color correct for a single person in a group or in other applications like for

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example luminar they can CSI enhance and

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magnify at both high speeds and without

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thermal throttling now In fairness a lot

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of the other operations in these programs are still going to want a

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dedicated GPU for the smoothest experience so we had to ask it is is

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that a possibility let me put it this way

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Qualcomm got a little KY when we asked about it so instead we asked a different

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question how many PCIe lanes are on the

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Snapdragon X Elite and the answer answer is 16 four of them are PCIe gen 3 and

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are dedicated to Wi-Fi 7 at speeds of up to 5.8 GB per second because of course

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Qualcomm would have their bases covered for wireless connectivity four of them

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are Gen 4 for high-speed envme storage

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leaving eight Gen 4 lanes that are just

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chilling for something like a GPU

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maybe who knows I also asked them about potential

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competition for the steam deck or the Rog Ally and

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again no they did actually say something it wasn't just crickets they said we've

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done Android gaming handhelds before with our partners and then they just

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stopped talking so it wouldn't surprise

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me to see an extremely efficient Windows gaming handheld down the line but that's

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pure speculation what isn't speculation is the pricing and availability of the

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devices they've announced here at computex 2024 not only are they boasting

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incredible performance and battery life they're actually undercutting the

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pricing of equivalent x86 models at launch we are still looking at pretty

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premium devices here with starting prices of $9.99 but guys these are

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available for pre-order now they're going to be shipping in mid June and hey

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these are the top-end chips and I wouldn't be surprised if you know with

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Brands like plus and Elite if maybe down

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the line something less Plus and less elite were to come Guys these are very

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very exciting times massive shout out Qualcomm Technologies for sponsoring

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this video getting us handson with all these amazing devices and if you guys

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are looking for something else to watch what should I throw them to how about

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the Surface RT unboxing from 12 years ago to show you just how far we've come