Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen alleged details


Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen alleged details.
The chips will allegedly feature the same Adreno 740 graphics as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, with support for DirectX 12 and Vulkan 1.3 graphics APIs, as well as OpenCL and DirectML. And Qualcomm’s highest-performance 12-core chip will also support discrete graphics thanks to 8 lanes of PCIe 4.0.
Other features are expected to include support for up to 64GB of 8-channel LPDDR5x memory, support for PCIe 4.0 NVMe and/or UFS 4.0 storage. There’s also support for WiFi 7, a Qualcomm Hexagon Tensor Processor with up to 45 TOPS of AI performance, and support for up to three Thunderbolt 4 ports and two USB 3.1 ports with support for 10 Gbps speeds.
According to Wojciechowski, the chip can decode video at up to 4K/120fps resolutions and encode 4K/60fps video and it can drive up to three displays including one 5K display and two 4K displays.
It’s probably best to take this all with a few grains of salt. Not only is it possible that some of the information in the leak could be inaccurate, but it’s also possible that Qualcomm’s plans could change in the coming year. But it sounds like Qualcomm’s chips for Windows and ChromeOS devices could be on track to deliver big performance gains in the next year or two… although how they’ll be competing with next-gen chips from Apple, Intel, and AMD when they arrive.

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