After rolling out Snapdragon X2 Elite chips last year, Qualcomm is expectedly expanding its lineup of Windows offerings with the Snapdragon X2 Plus range. Although we’re likely to see more variants in the future, Qualcomm made two SKUs official at CES 2026. There’s the X2P-64-100, which is a 10-core variant, which Qualcomm claims offers 35% higher single-core performance and 17% higher multi-core performance in Geekbench 6 than the prior-gen, and the X2P-42-100, which comes with six cores. Both sport boost speeds up to 4GHz, along with the X2-45 Adreno GPU and an NPU capable of 80 TOPS.
Compared to the first-generation Snapdragon X Plus, Qualcomm shook the specs around a bit. The two models still boost up to 4GHz, but Qualcomm went with a six-core variant for its lower-end X2 Plus SKU instead of the eight-core design we saw in the previous generation. Although Snapdragon hasn’t confirmed further variants yet, there’s a good chance we’ll see additional versions of these chips in the future.
Swipe to scroll horizontally Part Number Cores (Prime + Performance) Max Frequency (Multi / Single) Total Cache GPU (Clock) NPU TOPS (INT8) Memory (Capacity / Transfer Rate) Process X2P-64-100 10 (6 + 4) 4GHz / 4.04GHz 34MB X2-45 (1.7GHz) 80 128GB / 9523 MT/s TSMC N3P X1P-64-100 10 (6 + 4) 3.4GHz / N/A 42MB X1-85 (1.25GHz) 45 64GB / 8448 MT/s TSMC N4 X2P-42-100 6 (6 + 0) 4GHz / 4.04GHz 22MB X2-45 (0.9GHz 80 128GB / 9523 MT/s TSMC N3P X1P-42-100 8 (8 + 0) 3.2GHz / 3.4GHz 30MB X1-45 (1.25GHz) 45 64GB / 8448 MT/s TSMC N4
Like X2 Elite chips, the X2 Plus range is manufactured on TSMC’s N3P node using Qualcomm’s Oryon architecture. Qualcomm has renamed the cores inside its heterogeneous architecture to Prime (performance) and Performance (efficient) cores, but the idea is the same: Prime cores boast max clock speeds, while Performance cores leverage space-optimized designs for better multi-threaded performance.
The top-end X2P-64-100 variant has 10 total Oryon cores, split across six Prime cores and four Performance cores. The X2P-42-100 comes with the same six Prime cores but no Performance cores.
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Compared to the X1 Plus range, Qualcomm claims the 10-core X2P-64-100 offers 35% higher single-core performance and 17% higher multi-core performance in Geekbench 6 compared to the X1P-64-100. Critically, the X1P-64-100 is a downclocked version of the 10-core X1P offering, topping out at 3.4GHz. The X1P-66-100 is the highest-end X1P chip, boosting up to 4GHz.
The X2P-64-100 has 17% higher maximum clock speeds compared to the X1P-64-100, so although some of the extra performance comes from a clock speed increase, the updated Oryon architecture is contributing, as well. It’s possible that Qualcomm will release downclocked versions of these SKUs, but given the naming – and what we’ve seen from the X2 Elite lineup – variants with higher boost clock speeds seem likely.
Qualcomm claims the same 35% single-core boost with the X2P-42-100, though a smaller 10% multi-threaded jump. That’s not surprising considering the X2P-42-100 is a six-core part, while last-gen’s X1P-42-100 (and X1P-46-100) both came with eight cores. It appears Qualcomm cut the core count in order to achieve better efficiency, which was a weak point of the eight-core X1 Plus offerings in the previous generation.
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