Lenovo will release laptop with Snapdragon 8cx processor in early 2020

Lenovo and Qualcomm are working on a laptop with the Snapdragon 8cx processor. The system runs Windows 10 and, in addition to the soc, includes a Snapdragon X55 5G modem for mobile internet. The laptop will be on the market in 2020.

Lenovo and Qualcomm are working on the laptop with the Snapdragon soc under the name Project Limitless. The companies mainly emphasize the support for ‘5G’, but give few details about the device. The X55 modem can handle lte Cat. 22 for a theoretical peak download speed of 2.5 Gbit/s on the latest generation of 4G networks.

Qualcomm does take the opportunity to demonstrate the performance of the Snapdragon 8cx. The chip company announced its ARM platform for PCs late last year, bearing the claim that its processor offers comparable performance to an Intel U processor, at lower power consumption.

Qualcomm now backs up that claim in a series of seven videos. The images should show that the Snapdragon 8cx outperforms an undisclosed “competitor” in multitasking, web browsing, compressing files and working with Excel and Photoshop. Among other things, because details about the competing processor are missing, the images must be taken with a grain of salt.

The Snapdragon 8cx, specially developed for PCs, contains four powerful and four economical Kryo 495 cores, supports up to 16GB of lpddr4x RAM and can handle NVME SSDs and UFS 3.0 storage. The GPU is the Adreno 680.