Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge: Pricing, performance and specifications surface for early Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and Apple MacBook rival

Roland Quandt and WinFuture have shared new information about Samsung's first Snapdragon X Elite-powered laptop, a few days after the same machine appeared on Geekbench. To recap, Qualcomm demoed the Snapdragon X Elite last month during MWC 2024, full details of which we have covered separately. So far, only two Geekbench listings that have been posted, both claiming to be in a device called the Galaxy Book4 Edge. Incidentally, Samsung recently patented this name with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and it is the name to which Quandt refers to the device.

Based on the Geekbench scores below, the Galaxy Book4 Edge and Snapdragon X Elite get much closer to the performance numbers that Qualcomm demonstrated at last year's Snapdragon Summit than previous leaks showed. As a result, the Snapdragon X Elite and Galaxy Book4 Edge outscores the Apple M3 in multi-core work, albeit with 50% more CPU cores. However, the Snapdragon X Elite is no match for the more comparable 12-core Apple M3 Pro in this regard and falls short of both current-generation Apple SoCs in Geekbench single-core benchmarks.

Reportedly, Samsung will complement the Snapdragon X Elite with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage, matching the starting memory configuration in which the Galaxy Book4 Pro and Galaxy Book4 Pro 360 is available. In a similar vein, the Galaxy Book4 Edge is rumoured to feature a 14-inch display, likely the same 2.8K, 120 Hz and 16:10 AMOLED panel that Samsung uses in the smallest Galaxy Book4 Pro (curr. $1,449.99 on Amazon). According to Quandt, the Galaxy Book4 Edge will start at between €1,700 and €1,800. While that price range would make the Snapdragon X Elite-powered device more expensive than a base MacBook Air 13 and MacBook Air 15, the opposite is true when configuring either of Apple's machines with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. Likewise, the MacBook Pro 14 starts at €1,999 but with 8 GB of RAM instead of 16 GB in the Galaxy Book4 Edge's case.