In September 2025, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme processor. This cutting-edge chip is built on a 3nm manufacturing process and boasts an 18-core, all-large-core design. It incorporates the third-generation Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU, featuring a single-core peak frequency of 5.0GHz and a multi-core maximum frequency of 4.4GHz. In terms of memory support, it can handle LPDDR5x at a blazing-fast 9523MT/s, with a bandwidth of 228GB/s and a memory bit width of 192-bit.

The processor also showcases a new Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU architecture, offering 2.3 times better performance per watt than its predecessor. Additionally, it integrates the Hexagon™ NPU, delivering an impressive AI processing capability of 80TOPS. According to Geekbench 6 scores, when equipped in the ASUS Zenbook 16 A16, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme achieved a single-core score of 4033 and a multi-core score of 23198. Although this represents a substantial leap in performance over the previous generation, it still falls short of overturning its disadvantage when pitted against Apple's M5 series.