r/snapdragon

It's been available as a preview, but it's full mainline release now. If you have the x86 version installed, you should be able to redownload the installer and it'll automatically update to Arm.

I'm interested to learn about your experience with using a laptop with Snapdrahon x2 CPU. More ore less, I have standard questions, like:

1. Do you have any unresolved compatibility issues (e.g., running docker, some popular containers, k8s, runtimes)?
2. Do you have issues to compiler and run popular programming stacks (e.g., java spring app, c# asp.net app, rust cli app and so on)?
3. How fast you can compile (or run, in case of non AOT compiled languages) your app?
4. Have you tried to install Linux (e.g., ubuntu) instead of stock Windows, or does WSL2 work fine for you?

I'm looking at "HP - OmniBook X 16" 2K OLED Touchscreen Laptop - Snapdragon X2 Elite - 24GB Memory - 512GB SSD", it costs $1100, so it is crazy good deal, I am just not sure, will it work well enough for a software dev

Hello everyone,

I'm considering buying the ASUS Zenbook A14 (UX3407) with the following specifications:

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100)

32 GB LPDDR5X RAM

1 TB SSD

14" OLED display

Windows 11

My main usage will be:

Watching lots of educational videos

Technical documentation and writing

Coding (mainly beginner to intermediate level, not heavy software development)

Technical writing and UX tools (e.g., Figma, Office, browser-based tools)

Excel and web browsing with many tabs

Online meetings (Teams/Zoom)

I have a few questions for those who own or have used this laptop:

How has your experience been overall?

Have you run into any compatibility issues with the Snapdragon ARM processor?

How are the thermals? Does it get noticeably warm during normal productivity tasks like browsing, coding, meetings, or watching videos?

Would you recommend it for someone who plans to keep it for 5+ years?

I'd really appreciate hearing about your real-world experience. Thanks in advance!

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Im using a thunderbolt dock, with ethernet hooked up and just my thunderbolt cable to (host) asus zenbook a16 (SD elite extreme, i think). Thunderbolt dock is a wavlink thunderbolt5, internet speed is 2gbps. The dock shows up but the ethernet is grayed out . Is the laptop unable or something to use a setup like this ?

i am at a loss this is my seccond post, i have a lenovo ideapad slim 3x, its great an amazing upgrade over the chromebook i used to have, but i have no open gl or cl past version 1.1, i have installed repaired and remove and reinstallled the compatibilty pack from microsft and downgrade the drivers upgraded the drives and reinstalled the drivers and NOTHING is making it show any higher than 1.1. i have done every trick you can think of to get it to work and nothng changes, downloaded opengl view thing and it shows it as 1.1 as well

any help appriciated thanks

edit: yes i updated windows.

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Running Ubuntu 26.04. Almost everything worked since early this year. The final roadblock was that battery loss during sleep was 4.5% an hour. Now, with Kernel 7.1*, I get 1.6% loss an hour. So if I leave it uncharged overnight at 100%, it will still be 88% in the morning. Not as good as Windows, but perfectly usable.

Geekbench results are similar to Windows. But battery life is not quite as good (I get around 10-11 hours with high screen brightness).

I did have to install a manually built kernel linked at the bottom, but 7.1 should automatically come to Ubuntu in the next few months.

A few more things which are not perfect:

• Dolby sound doesn't officially work, but some people have managed to translate the speaking tuning files into Linux-compatible tunings. Qualcomm's Smart DSP doesn't work though, so you will get good quality sound, but not very high volume. Overall it's decent.
• Qualcomm's Webcam ISP doesn't work, so currently the webcam is just a raw unfiltered image. However there are efforts on Linux to create an open Software ISP to improve the quality for all webcams. Overall it's functional, but your face looks better in Windows!
• Qualcomm's NPU doesn't work
• A few usb-c external displays might not work, but this should be solved by Kernel 7.2 this summer

And one thing which isn't on Windows:

• Battery charge limit of 80% works

* https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-elite/48800/1957

I have been researching for 2 days but I'm lost.

Which snapdragon processor is good enough that it doesn't overheat like the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 or SD 8 Gen 1 or SD 888. I'm looking around for phones on the samsung line but I'm having trouble finding a phone which is similar to my A23 Qualcomm SM6225 Snapdragon 680 4G (6 nm). I know samsung foundry chipsets suck but I really don't know which is better or worse.

NOTE: I got the m55 5g samsung phone that has a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (4nm) and it literally started heating up when I turned it on for the first time and I lost 20% battery in the span of 2 hours. My A23 has never overheated like that in the 4 years I've had it and still runs well.

NOTE 2: The games I'm playing are Japanese VN's, Ren'py and Pixelated story games that require 4-8GB of ram and use DX9-12. I also play RPGM games but I use joiplay for those.

Please suggest something that doesn't overheat and is no older than the Samsung A23 as it came out in March 2022.

Hi guys,

Just wondering why I can’t find the PZ13 in Asus Australia / if anyone fellow Australian knows why it hasn’t been released.

Looking for a good surface competitor and was excited for the PZ14 coming out with the new Snapdragon X2 but I can’t find its predecessor released here.

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Have an Asus Vivobook S with a snapdragon x elite, been using auto sr to play borderlands 3 for a while. Today all of a sudden the option disappeared from my settings and disappeared from game bar? i’ve updated to latest drivers i’ve tried everything but no luck. Anyone face similar issues? any help would be great. Thanks.

I love my Asus Zenbook A16, but man those fans can get really loud in performance mode.

Yes, it is a thin device, but I would rather have thermal throttling instead, and fanless designs also force passive cooling and chip efficiency innovation, not to mention better battery life.

How important is this to y'all, and are there currently any fanless Snapdragon laptops available, or any upcoming ones?

I would also love a fanless Extreme chip Mini PC, even if a bigger Mini PC design like the Mac Studio, because I'm very sensitive to noise, and it should be possible, surely by 2030.

Been living with 24/7 highway noise for 20 years so yeah, constant noise sucks, big time.

This is the only device I could find:

The new ASUS Ascent QN10 confirms the potential here, with an 18-core Snapdragon X2 Elite and an < 0.7 L footprint.

Yet, it still relies on a cooling system reaching 53 dBA at load.

Why are we still prioritizing peak performance benchmarks over silent operation when the efficiency gains are already here, and is anyone else waiting for a truly fanless, passive design, or are we stuck with active cooling for the foreseeable future?

Just got the A16 from BB on an open box excellent for $1400, (still had the plastic on the cords it, and only 1 battery cycle). This is my second Asus Snapdragon. I have the cheap model with the Plus that I picked up for $400 12-18 months ago that I use almost daily for light tasks or as a remoting machine. My other daily machines used for various tasks, that I judge against, are a couple of Mac Minis (M5), a MacBook Air (M5/16...going to my son which is why I was looking for another laptop), a Legion (3070TI, 32GB) running Linux (90% of the time) used for gaming/AI models locally. Most of these machines I use remote/headless a lot of the time. I also considered buying a Panther Lake with a b390 for better Linux compatibility, or another MBA/Pro with 24GB.

For my initial tests, I'm just installing default downloads, no changes in most cases. I just wanted to get a feel of the laptop and see where it fits in my daily work.

Gaming - Everything I or my kids play works fine. CSGO, Fortnite, Siege some older games, Hogwarts, Palworld, CyberPunk etc. My son tested the shooters and said they were perfectly fine for casual/fun matches. 90-100+ FPS with some dips. We drop down graphics if needed. Other games were easy to get to 50-60+ FPS with good enough graphics. I also have GeForce Now Ultimate and the Legion if needed, but so far, I wouldn't have an issue playing casually on this machine knowing the limitations.

AI - Models have been hit or miss with llama.cpp and LMStudio. I have not yet compiled lllama.cpp from source. I downloaded the nightly build for ARM. Both tools were just dumping junk, but a little searching and I found the params on llama.cpp that generally get things to work. They seem to be slightly slower than my Mac Mini if both can fit them in memory, but I can load a bunch of larger models on the A16 that the mini just refuse or freeze on. Most models seem to run faster when all or some layers are on CPU, not using the GPU. I did not do extensive testing here or applying any special params...just poking around at models off the shelf.

Linux - Bare Metal/latest ARM images. No tweaks applied, just trying the default images. I did not spend a lot of time yet trying to get these to work. I did have Ubuntu installed on my other Snapdragon.

Ubuntu boots, but I have no functioning keyboard or trackpad, so couldn't do anything. If I can find my wired mouse, I will try again with wired and see if I can get it updated and working. I have high hopes this will be working under 26.10.

Fedora - Would not boot.

Debian - Would not boot.

VMs - VirtualBox latest

Fedora/Ubuntu both work and feel very responsive. Could easily use them as my daily if I needed/wanted to be in Linux all day.

To install, had to change the display to VBoxSVGA and then could switch it back. Installing the Guest Additions took a few times as well for some reason.

Resizing the display doesn't work in Fedora when expanding the window, but you can resize the display in the OS to fit the size you want.

Also have to sometimes hard stop the VM either after sleep, or if I do a restart and it won't boot. I also have to sometimes do a hard stop it if I do a VM shutdown.

Bonus - The battery life in my basic testing has not really been impacted by the VM and I'm easily getting a full day out of it while limiting charge to 80%, but I offload to other machines for heavier workloads.

Some general annoyances -

Trackpad can be sensitive to phantom clicks. I rest my palms on the edges, and I notice that sometimes my cursor suddenly jumps. My other Asus does the same thing. It's probably just my hand placement. A little posture adjustment and it stops. I also worry that my watch might scratch it, so it's forcing me to stop being lazy.

Screen is reflective when using a dark theme. Switching to light themes helps. It's more reflective compared to my MBA, but they both suffer from it.

Other good.

Laptop is incredibly light. Screen, other than reflection, is great. Wake from sleep is instant and battery doesn't drain overnight (even with VM running). Battery is great for all day, sometimes multiday work. I don't like to carry the brick when I'm out or gone for a few days, so I always test various charging options. Fortunately, like the MBA, the Asus will charge off a low watt charger if needed (tested on a low power charger delivering about 7W...it was slow but charged). Have had no issues with any software that I use. Keyboard is nice, backlighting is good, ports are good.

Update: Nightly Tumblweed also boots, but no keyboard or trackpad. Wired mouse doesn't work either.

I was just in an electronics store today, and tried lifting every single current macbook they had on display.

They all felt heavier than my Asus Zenbook A16 X2 Elite Extreme, which only weighs 1.2kg.

Even the Macbook Neo and Macbook Air 13 inch both felt heavier, and are heavier on paper, at around 1.25kg, which is insane to me, 13 inch laptops being heavier than a 16 inch laptop.

And forget about the 16 inch macbook pro, which weighs 2.15kg, not far from double!

And the Zenbook A14 comes in at just 0.98kg, much lower than the macbook air 15 and macbook pro 14 inch.

Did this very low weight inform your purchasing decision, those of you who've bought one of these 2 Snapdragon laptops? And despite this low weight, do they still feel premium to you, and not cheap?

My A16 certainly feels premium, and to get a 16 inch laptop, it's so much cheaper than the 16 inch macbook pro, which is certainly quite a bit faster, but also has worse battery life, Snapdragon is unmatched here as well.

And how come Macbook are still so heavy? I would've thought Apple would be king here, as much as they've always bragged about how thin and light all their devices are...