Run concurrent on-device AI apps and agentic workloads efficiently with the Snapdragon X Series industry-leading Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU for faster responsiveness and reduced latency.1
Why developers are building AI apps on Snapdragon
The Hexagon NPU in the Snapdragon X Series delivers performance and high efficiency with up to 80 TOPS of AI processing via its 64-bit NPU architecture and increased memory access for the latest AI models, to accelerate media editing, multimodal content generation, and agentic AI.
Local AI Performance
Run GenAI workloads locally with low latency and responsive inference.
Power Efficiency
Sustain AI experiences without excessive power consumption.
Broad AI Ecosystem
Use the frameworks, runtimes, and models you already know.
Optimized for AI
Built for Copilot+ PCs and Windows AI workflows.
Hexagon NPU in Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme delivers on average up to
2x AI performance and efficiency vs. competitor GPUs and NPUs
Hexagon NPU in the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme delivers better AI performance and power efficiency vs. the competition.2
Case Studies
Check out these applications already using agentic AI on Windows on Snapdragon X Series.
Build with our Trusted Ecosystem Partners
The Hexagon NPU in the Snapdragon X Series delivers fast, efficient on-device AI inference, with an architecture optimized for the latest AI models and use cases, while maintaining low power consumption. Check out our growing ecosystem of partners enabling AI development on PCs with Snapdragon X Series.
AI Model Zoos
Models
100s of optimized ecosystem models
Day 0 Support announced for latest models
AI Scaling Partners
Scale to millions of devs
AI Frameworks
Evaluate Models and Apps
Discover the power of the Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon X Series on a cloud hosted infrastructure.
Remotely access real devices powered by Snapdragon and Qualcomm® platforms for seamless application evaluations.
Models
Choose from a variety of models with these options:
Qualcomm AI Hub
Browse 300+ AI models optimized and validated by Qualcomm Technologies. Evaluate and optimize models on the Qualcomm AI Hub.
Microsoft Foundry Local
Download AI models optimized for Snapdragon X Series PCs and execute them through the ONNX Runtime on Windows ML.
AI Apps
Clone and customize sample application code for bundling a model to deploy on device.
Qualcomm AI Hub Workbench
Optimize your custom trained model for a target runtime, run inference. Profile on-device performance with a few lines of code. Target 50+ hosted Qualcomm devices, provisioned within minutes.
Qualcomm Device Cloud (QDC)
Remotely access real devices powered by Snapdragon® and Qualcomm® platforms for seamless testing applications.
Build AI Your Way
Flexibility, interoperability and ease-of-use are at the heart of driving innovative uses cases on Snapdragon X Series PCs. Learn how the frameworks and tools of Qualcomm AI provide interoperability with popular model repositories, ecosystem frameworks, and execution providers to develop AI apps on the NPU, CPU, and GPU.
Choose from a plethora of foundational models pre-optimized for the Hexagon NPU architecture available from the Microsoft AI Foundry or the Qualcomm AI Hub, or you can bring your own custom models. Build traditional or Generative AI applications on top of popular ecosystem frameworks such as ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow and TensorFlow Lite. Choose a runtime framework to meet your development needs and use an Execution Provider listed below.
Use a guided approach to develop high-performance AI applications with NPU differentiation with Qualcomm AI Engine Direct. The use of ONNX Runtime (ORT) provides scalability, and Windows ML offers IHV interoperability.
Accelerate AI workloads on the CPU, GPU and the NPU engines enabling low latency, high throughput, and low-power usages on the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon.
Execution Providers
ONNX Runtime
Get the essentials of building AI apps using the ONNX Runtime (ORT) with a flexible interface to integrate hardware-specific libraries (Execution Providers). Take advantage of Olive model optimizations and app-acceleration using QNN-EP for NPU, GPU, CPU, and ORT CPU EP.
Windows ML
Leverage Windows ML which serves as the AI inferencing core of Windows AI Foundry for AI app development. Using Windows AI APIs and Foundry local models, build apps that seamlessly leverage device capabilities for model inference. Windows ML automatically selects the best hardware, balancing the load and enhancing performance.
Qualcomm AI Engine Direct (QNN)
Achieve the best possible performance for AI apps on PCs with Snapdragon X Series using Qualcomm AI Engine Direct. The SDK provides tools to support popular AI frameworks and offline tools to convert, quantize, optimize, and offload the models onto various AI Engine runtimes.
Generative AI
Leverage GenAI APIs and third-party platforms that offer methodologies, best practices, and tools for deploying generative AI on Windows on Snapdragon devices.
Samples
Check out these sample apps to learn more about building AI on Windows on Snapdragon.
Build Agentic AI apps
Build autonomous on-device agents to simplify complex, repetitive, multi-step, schedule-driven enterprise workflows. Take advantage of PCs with Snapdragon X Series to transform enterprise productivity with fast, private, local agentic AI execution for real-world use cases.
