Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite Platform is the 2024 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner in the Edge AI Processors category. The Snapdragon X Elite is the first Snapdragon based on the new Qualcomm Oryon CPU architecture, which outperforms every other laptop CPU in its class. The Snapdragon X Elite’s heterogeneous AI Engine has a combined performance of greater than 70 TOPS across the NPU, CPU and GPU.
The Snapdragon X Elite includes a powerful integrated NPU capable of delivering up to 45 TOPS. In addition to raw performance, on-device AI benefits from a model’s accuracy and response time, as well as the speed for large language models, measured in tokens per second. The Snapdragon X Elite can run a 7 billion parameter Llama 2 model on-device at 30 tokens per second. The Oryon CPU subsystem outperforms the competitor’s high-end 14-core laptop chip in peak performance by 60%, and can match the competitor’s performance while using 65% less power. When compared to the leading performing x86 integrated GPU, Snapdragon X Elite delivers up to 80% faster performance, and can match the competitor’s highest performance with 80% less power consumption. Developers will have access to the latest AI SDKs too. Snapdragon X Elite features support for all of the leading AI frameworks, including TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, Keras and more.
“On behalf of our entire Snapdragon engineering team, I would like to thank the Edge AI and Vision Alliance for awarding Snapdragon X Elite Platform as the 2024 Best Edge AI Processor Product of the Year. This groundbreaking platform ushers in a new era for Windows PCs, transforming them into next-generation AI powerhouses. Featuring the integrated Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, which delivers an unprecedented 45 trillion operations per second, the Snapdragon X Elite is the fastest NPU for laptops globally, enabling unparalleled on-device AI experiences.”
Kedar Kondap, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compute and Gaming, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
For more than 30 years, Qualcomm has served as the essential accelerator of wireless technologies and the ever-growing mobile ecosystem. Now our inventions are set to transform other industries by bringing connectivity, machine vision and intelligence to billions of machines and objects—from mobile devices, connected cars and homes, to connected cameras, robotics, drones, and entire cities—catalyzing the IoT. Furthermore, we are driving the evolution of connectivity with new technologies for 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, to create a unified platform that will empower new user experiences, connect new industries and devices, and enable innovative types of services for the next decade and beyond.
This award was presented at the 2024 Embedded Vision Summit, which took place May 21-23 in Santa Clara, CA. The awards program is organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. The Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards celebrate the innovation and achievement of the industry’s leading companies that are enabling and developing products incorporating edge AI and computer vision technologies.
