Asus laptop with Snapdragon X Elite leaked ahead of launch

An online retailer in Vietnam leaked Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED featuresThe Taiwanese giant’s new laptop equipped with the Snapdragon X Elite chipset. The leak in question was published on X by journalist Roland Quandt, days before the laptop’s official launch event scheduled for May 20.

The Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED is part of Asus’ new series of laptops aimed at performing AI tasks. This will be possible thanks to Qualcomm’s new chipset, which, according to the company, is 4.5 times more powerful than its rivals in AI tasks.

Here is the first Snapdragon X Elite laptop from ASUS, which has been listed in Vietnam stores for a while. pic.twitter.com/3mCKn0nVto

— Roland Quandt (@rquandt) May 16, 2024

Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED Technical Specifications

As mentioned earlier, the highlight of the new Asus Vivobook is the Snapdragon X Elite chipset, equipped with 12 cores, 8 of which are high-performance and 4 energy-efficient. The base frequency of the chip is 3.4 GHz and can achieve a 4.2 GHz turbo clock with up to 2 cores. This is Qualcomm’s direct answer to Apple M chips and could revolutionize the Windows-based ARM laptop market.

Besides the powerful chip, the new Vivobook S has solid features worthy of a premium model:

• Processor: Snapdragon X Elite X1E with Qualcomm AI Engine (42 MB cache, up to 3.4 GHz, 12 cores and 12 threads);
• Screen: 15.6-inch OLED, 3K resolution (2880 × 1620 pixels), 16:9 aspect ratio, 120 Hz refresh rate, 600 nits peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut;
• Graphic: Qualcomm Adreno GPU;
• RAM memory: 32GB LPDDR5x;
• to store: 1TB SSD NVMe PCIe 4.0;
• Battery: 70 WHr;
• military certificate: MIL-STD 810H.

It is also worth noting that Snapdragon

The Qualcomm component will provide a huge leap in performance for ultra-thin and ultra-light laptops. Additionally, the chipset is expected to offer high performance in artificial intelligence-based tasks.

Price

The Vietnamese store did not publish the price of the Asus Vivobook S 15 OLED, but Quandt reports that the simplest model should cost US$ 1,650 (R$ 8,466), while the more advanced model should cost US$ 2,500 (R$ 12,830).