Oryon Explained

Oryon is an 8 to 12-core CPU implementing the ARMv8.7-A architecture. It is used on the Snapdragon X Plus, Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon 8 Elite systems on chips, first released in June 2024.^[1]

It began development in 2021 when Nuvia^[2] was acquired by Qualcomm.

It is the first custom microarchitecture for smartphone SoCs^[3] released by Qualcomm since the original Kryo.

Variants

1st generation

Development of the first generation of Oryon started in 2021 under Nuvia. This generation consists out of Snapdragon X-series chips that are targeted at laptops.

Comparison of 1st generation Oryon CPUs^[4]

Branding	Model number	Core count	Total cache	Max multithread frequency	Boost frequency	Memory type	Release
X Elite	X1E-00-1DE	12	42 MB	3.8 GHz	4.3 GHz (dual-core)	LPDDR5x-8448	Q2 2024
	X1E-84-100				4.2 GHz (dual-core)
	X1E-80-100			3.4 GHz	4.0 GHz (dual-core)
	X1E-78-100				–
X Plus	X1P-66-100	10			4.0 GHz (single-core)
	X1P-64-100				–
	X1P-46-100	8	30 MB		4.0 GHz (single-core)
	X1P-42-100			3.2 GHz	3.4 GHz (single-core)

2nd generation

The second generation consists only out of Snapdragon 8-series chips targeted at smartphones and tablets.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2024-06-21 . The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1 . 29 June 2024 . Anandtech.
2. News: Statt . Nick . Qualcomm just bought a two-year-old startup founded by former Apple engineers for $1.4 billion . 9 August 2024 . The Verge . 13 January 2021 . en . Nuvia, was formed in 2019 by three former engineers and chip specialists, all of whom worked at Apple on the A-series chip line that powers the iPhone and iPad.
3. Web site: Introducing the Qualcomm Falkor CPU core: purpose-built for cloud workloads Qualcomm . 2024-10-30 . www.qualcomm.com . en.
4. Web site: Snapdragon X Elite . Qualcomm . 29 June 2024 .
5. Web site: Snapdragon 8 Elite . Qualcomm . 21 November 2024 .