One of the advantages that we find in most computer components is the ability we can have to disassemble them, and that is that practically all of them have a series of parts that allow us to understand in depth how they work. In the case of processors, depending on their type, it can be more or less complicated, but it is almost always possible to remove the IHS to find out what they hide, and in this case, a user has dismantled a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to know how each of its elements are distributed.
It’s not too long since the Snapdragon X Elite came onto the market, and many users had doubts about what this chip was like on the inside, since we know what those from Intel and AMD are like since they usually follow a fairly similar pattern between the different generations, which evolves and changes certain aspects. But the Qualcomm ones are practically a novelty, ample reason to dismantle one and begin to see what is inside, something that a user has done to publicize how the processor is structured by showing everything that this small chip contains.
Have you ever wanted to see what a Qualcomm processor looks like inside? You’re in luck
Many times we can find a large number of practical resources in internet forums, which can teach us rumors, leaks or directly graphic resources of what a component is like inside, since not everyone dares to disassemble something that has just come out. and it costs a lot of money. A Baidu user has carried out this practice, allowing us to see what one of the latest processors is like inside. Qualcommhe Snapdragon X Elitewhich allows us to know information about the architecture of this new system on chip.
Some of the key aspects that we find are the large CPU cores and a GPU along with a really complex cache system, and it must be taken into account that all this is manufactured on a matrix that measures 169.6 mm² and that uses TSMC’s 4nm N4P process. Each of the Oryon “Phoenix” CPU cores that we can find in the processor measures about 2.55 mm² in a configuration with a total of 12 cores (8+4), which represents a size much larger than what we find in the Arm processors.
On the other hand, we can see the GPU, called Adreno integrated the fact that Qualcomm claims to offer 4.6 FP32 TFLOPS even with this reduced size. This chip has a large amount of cache, and the three quad-core CPU clusters occupy 16.1 mm² each while they have 12 MB of L2 cache, but there is also another 6 MB of cache in an area of 5.09 mm² along with a separate GPU cache.
The most notable thing about this chip is the NPU, since it offers 45 TOPS and it is one of the key aspects that Qualcomm has highlighted as a key feature, but it cannot be seen clearly in the image, which is quite ironic.