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The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform combines the best of the smartphone with performance and efficiency for premium ultrathin laptops with an Always On, Always ...

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The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform combines the best of the smartphone with performance and efficiency for premium ultrathin laptops with an Always On, Always ...

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The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform combines the best of the smartphone with performance and efficiency for premium ultrathin laptops with an Always On, Always Connected PC* experience. Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 supports superior performance and multi-day battery life**, with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity speeds. Combined with advanced camera an...

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The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform combines the best of the smartphone with performance and efficiency for premium ultrathin laptops with an Always On, Always Connected PC* experience. Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 supports superior performance and multi-day battery life**, with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity speeds. Combined with advanced camera and audio, AI accelerated experiences, and enterprise-grade security, you can connect, create, and communicate from virtually anywhere.

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Extreme performance and battery life

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform with a powerful Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU is engineered to provide superior performance and battery life that can last for up to 25+ continuous hours**, which is up to 2X as long as a traditional laptop. Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 supports incredible battery life and up to 50% greater total system performance than the competition***, so your laptop can last longer, and get things done faster.

Always On Always Connected* with 4G LTE, 5G, and Wi-Fi 6

Unleash multi-gigabit connectivity speeds with the Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF system, supporting 5G (sub-6 GHz and mmWave), 4G LTE, and Wi-Fi 6. Stay more securely connected, seamlessly switching between trusted Wi-Fi and cellular networks depending on location, and get accurate navigation and location-based services with location awareness. High speed connected computing for fast and efficient productivity and entertainment virtually anywhere.

Powerful graphics, advanced camera and audio

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G compute platform supports immersive graphics performance and hardware acceleration for enhanced video conferencing. Create, capture, edit, and stream in up to brilliant, 4K HDR and 32 MP camera. The integrated Qualcomm Aqstic™ echo cancellation and noise suppression (ECNS) Audio technology is designed to enable high-fidelity sound for an immersive video conferencing experience with dual 4K external monitor support for multi-tasking productivity.

AI acceleration for advanced applications and experience

The dedicated Qualcomm® AI Engine takes advantage of the highly integrated Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 architecture to deliver next-gen capabilities for intelligent camera, voice UI, security, and more to turn your PC into a hub of mobile productivity and entertainment.

Enterprise-grade security

Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 provides built-in security protections to help make passwords and log-ons protected and easy with full Windows 10 support, facial and fingerprint ID, and platform support for Windows Hypervisor and Secured-core PC. Cellular connectivity eliminates the need for relying on unsecure public Wi-Fi networks while allowing untethered, remote connection.

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Features

  • Latest DirectX 12 API
  • Advanced Camera and Video capabilities: Cinema core with VP9 & H.265 decoder and 2nd Gen HDR Playback; High efficiency video encoder
  • Dual 4K external displays
  • Connected Standby / Instant On
  • Multi-gigabit speeds for virtually seamless cloud connectivity/computing: up to 2Gbps LTE
  • Location Aware for app accuracy
  • Wi-Fi: MU-MIMO, Multi-gigabit Wi-Fi 6, Dual-band simultaneous (DBS), Integrated baseband
  • 4th Generation Qualcomm® AI Engine
  • Enhanced voice assistant experiences with Qualcomm Aqstic™ technology
  • Supports all versions of Windows 10 (Enterprise, Pro, Home) and Windows 11
  • Improved crypto-security
  • Remote management and location awareness for enterprise efficiency
  • Advanced location features:
    • Low Power Geofencing and Tracking
    • Sensor-assisted Navigation
    • Pedestrian Navigation
  • Sensors: Qualcomm® Sensing Hub technology
  • Charging: Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 4+ technology
Specifications
Storage
SSD/NVMe Interface
NVMe
UFS
UFS 3.0
Location
Location Support
Qualcomm® Location
Satellite Systems
GLONASS, Beidou, SBAS, GPS, QZSS, Galileo
Location and Global Emergency Services
LTE Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA), Assisted GPS
NFC
Near Field Communications
Supported
RF
RF Front-End (RFFE) Features
High-power transmit (HPUE), Qualcomm® Adaptive Antenna Tuning
CPU
Clock Speed
3.15 GHz
Name
Qualcomm® Kryo™ 495
Number of Cores
8
Architecture
64-bit

***All comparisons made based on Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 reference laptop vs. Intel Core i5 L16G7-based laptop. Results will vary depending on OEM implementation and other factors.
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Qualcomm Spectra, Qualcomm Kryo, Hexagon, Qualcomm TrueWireless, Qualcomm Location, Qualcomm Quick Charge, Qualcomm Sensing Hub, Qualcomm aptX, and Qualcomm Snapdragon Upload+ are products of Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Kryo, Adreno, Qualcomm Spectra, Qualcomm TrueWireless, Qualcomm Aqstic, Quick Charge and Hexagon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated. aptX is a trademark of Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd. Other products and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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