Snapdragon X Plus Performance

Ryan Shrout
September 11, 2025

The newest Snapdragon X Plus processors deliver improved performance and clear differentiation within the competitive AI PC market.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus CPUs for laptops serve as the midrange counterpart to the high-end Snapdragon X Elite introduced last year. The first two Snapdragon X Plus models, the 10-core X1P-64-100 and the 8-core X1P-42-100, have appeared in laptops that fall squarely within the mainstream price segment, helping bring the Snapdragon PC platform to a wider audience.

The Snapdragon X Plus family has however had something of a gap between the X1P-64-100 and the X1P-42-100 in respect to both the CPU and GPU cores; the X1P-64-100’s two extra cores can offer over 20% extra performance, and the integrated Adreno graphics boast 3.8 TFLOPS on the X1P-64-100 compared to 1.7 TFLOPS on the X1P-42-100. This gap has also translated to prices, as there’s not too many options around the $600 to $700 segment of the market.

To bridge that gap, Qualcomm has launched a second 8-core model, the Snapdragon X Plus X1P-46-100, which sports an enhanced boost frequency and a faster integrated GPU. The maximum single-core boost clock has been pushed to 4.0 GHz from the original 3.4 GHz on the X1P-42-100, and the maximum multi-core frequency has been increased to 3.4 GHz from 3.2 GHz. Additionally, the iGPU has been elevated to 2.1 TFLOPS, up from 1.7 TFLOPS. In all, that’s an 18% improvement to the single-core boost clock, a 6% increase to the multi-core frequency, and a 24% jump in graphics prowess. This means the X1P-46-100 can slot neatly in between the two original Snapdragon X Plus members and offer something more than just more CPU cores.

In terms of the product stack, the X1P-46-100 should easily be able to feature in laptops below the $700 mark like the X1P-42-100. Additional single-threaded performance (which has a great impact on responsiveness and overall system speed) will undoubtedly be an enticing reason to opt for the X1P-46-100 over the X1P-42-100, and the extra graphical fidelity will certainly help in gaming and GPU-accelerated applications.