Qualcomm's New Chipset Makes Budget Shopping for Laptops a Whole Lot Easier in 2026

Qualcomm's new chipset makes budget shopping for laptops a whole lot easier in 2026

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus SoC is poised to be a huge boon for budget PCs, offering better performance and energy efficiency.

Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon X2 Plus Chips for Mainstream Laptops: Here Are the First Test Numbers

At CES 2026, the big maker of mobile chips teased details—and some benchmarks—for its new mainstream Snapdragon processor family for laptops, the Snapdragon X2 Plus. Here's how it shapes up versus a field of machines we tested in our own labs.

Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X2 Plus beats AMD and Intel in new benchmarks

The benchmarks are drawn from Geekbench 6.5 and UL's Procyon suite, run on Windows 11 laptops. Qualcomm claims the 10-core X2 Plus can deliver up to 3.1× higher multi-core CPU performance at the same power level as competing processors, while reaching up to 52 percent higher peak performance in those tests.Read Entire Article

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon X2 Plus at CES 2026

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Plus chipset uses Qualcomm's 3rd-gen Oryon CPU and comes in 10-core and 6-core versions

The 'everyday' laptop most people will want might not be a MacBook after all

Qualcomm just revealed the Snapdragon X2 Plus, promising epic battery life for 'everyday' form factors