According to a recent article on Guru3D, Qualcomm’s upcoming processor, the Snapdragon Elite X, is rumored to have 12 cores and support LPDDR5x memory and WiFi 71.

The chip is code-named “Hamoa” and is expected to support up to 8 performance cores at up to 3.4 GHz and up to 4 efficiency cores at up to 2.5 GHz1.

Each block of four cores has 12MB of shared L2 cache and 8MB of L3 cache, plus 12MB of system-level cache and 4MB for graphics1.

The chips will allegedly feature the same Adreno 740 graphics as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, with support for DirectX 12 and Vulkan 1.3 graphics APIs, as well as OpenCL and DirectML1.

The highest-performance 12-core chip will also support discrete graphics thanks to 8 lanes of PCIe 4.01.

Other features are expected to include support for up to 64GB of 8-channel LPDDR5x memory, support for PCIe 4.0 NVMe and/or UFS 4.0 storage, a Qualcomm Hexagon Tensor Processor with up to 45 TOPS of AI performance, and support for up to three Thunderbolt 4 ports and two USB 3.1 ports with support for 10 Gbps speeds1.