The 4 Kryo 495 Silver cores are small ARM Cortex-A55 cores for power efficiency and clocked at 1.8 GHz under load (most likely).Ĭompared to the predecessor, the Snapdragon 8cx, the Gen 2 offers higher clock speeds and an integrated 5G modem (X55 with Sub-6 GHz and mmWave support). The 4 Kryo 495 Gold cores are based on the ARM Cortex-A76 architecture (for performance) and clocked at 3.15 GHz under load. It integrates a similar CPU part as the Snapdragon 855 (same cores but without the Prime Core feature) and is manufactured in 7nm at Samsung.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G Compute Platform (or SD8cx Gen2, SC8180XP) is a ARM based SoC for Windows laptops. Qualcomm has previously shown that the Snapdragon 8cx compares favorably against the Intel Core i5-8250U ( Kaby Lake-R) that is available in the Surface Pro 6.Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G ► remove from comparison

That chip is built on a 7nm process node, and is comprised of an octa-core, 64-bit Kyro 495 CPU and an Adreno 680 GPU. Although it was not mentioned, we're assuming the SQ1 is based on the Snapdragon 8cx, which was designed from the onset for PCs. This SoC was engineered in partnership with Qualcomm and incorporates a Microsoft-designed AI engine (9 TFLOPs compute). Today, however, Microsoft is going back to ARM with the all-new Surface Pro X, which is bringing with it a much more powerful SoC to provide a compelling balance of performance and battery life.Īt the heart of the Surface Pro is Microsoft's new SQ1 processor.

However, it didn't take long for Microsoft to release that the limited app ecosystem and performance of the ARM version wasn't attracting customers, so it abandoned its efforts after the Surface 2. When Microsoft first announced the Surface family, it was available in both x86 and ARM versions.

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