Samsung is planning to release a new ARM-based laptop, the Galaxy Book 4 Edge, that will compete in the high-end thin-and-light space.
Samsung’s notebook will come with Qualcomm’s new 12-coreSnapdragon X Elitechip designed for laptops,WinFuture reports, which purportedly boasts more performance than Apple’s previous-genM2 chip. The new notebook will reportedly launch for “around €1,800” — that’s $2,074, although it’s fair to expect actual U.S. retail pricing will be somewhat different due to tax and import regulation differences between Europe and the U.S.
This new laptop should be the first in Samsung’s portfolio to sport the X Elite, which looks to be a massive step up from Qualcomm’s previous ARM-based laptop CPUs, which have struggled to compete due to mediocre performance and compatibility issues. The X Elite promises compute performance on-par with recent Intel and Apple platforms. Clearly, Qualcomm is hoping its silicon will run some of thebest premium laptopsof the not-too-distant future.
The X Elite features twelve of Qualcomm’s new ‘Oryon’ performance cores, clocked at up to 3.8GHz, with single- and dual-core turbo boost frequencies tuned even higher, at 4.3GHz. The integrated graphics is a Qualcomm’s Adreno part that tops out at 4.6TFLOPs. Similar to AMD’s newRyzen 8000 mobileCPUs and IntelMeteor Lakechips, the X Elite also comes with an NPU featuring an impressive 45 TOPs of performance.
According toQualcomm’s own benchmarks, the X Elite is incredibly quick for an ARM-based CPU. The chip’s twelve Oryon cores were able to outperform an IntelCore i7-13800H,Ryzen 9 7940HS, and Apple M2 in several CPU- and AI-intensivebenchmarks. In Cinebench 2024 specifically, the Snapdragon X Elite was able to outperform the Apple M2 by over a factor of two. The X Elite looks to be the first non-Apple ARM-based CPU to boast competitive performance to Intel and AMDx86chips. But of course, it’s unclear under what thermal conditions Qualcomm ran these benchmarks, so them (and all company-provided test results) with a heaping helping of salt.
The Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge will come in a 14-inch form factor, featuring 16GB of RAM (a minimum requirement forAI PCs) and a 512GBSSD. Sadly (though not unexpectedly) theRAMwill not be user-expandable, as has become the norm with thin-and-light notebooks. Images of the Qualcomm-powered laptop were not shared, but we can expect the Book 4 Edge to share a similar design as Samsung’s outgoingBook 4 Ultraand Book 4 Pro featuring a thin metal chassis and a Moonstone Gray finish.
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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.
