Samsung Googlebook with Snapdragon X Elite chip in Geekbench test
Following its Chromebooks, Google has now also introduced the new Googlebooks – laptops running the Android operating system. The platform’s official website lists laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo. Now it appears that a Samsung Googlebook will also be released soon.
Samsung Googlebook (XE940XSA) Geekbench test
We don’t yet know its name, as Geekbench 7.1.0 only lists the model number – Samsung XE940XSA. Samsung has a “Galaxy Chromebook” for Google’s other laptop platform. However, since “Galaxy Googlebook” sounds rather clunky, we’ll assume it’s simply a Samsung Googlebook for now.
The chipset is known as “Hamoa,” Qualcomm‘s codename for the Snapdragon X Elite. It’s somewhat disappointing that Samsung isn’t using an X2-series chip, but the Samsung Googlebook isn’t alone – Dell and HP models also use the X Elite. Acer, Asus, and Lenovo laptops, on the other hand, use an Intel Core Ultra 5.
All previous Googlebooks have 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. Geekbench confirms the 16 GB of RAM for the Samsung model (though storage specifications are not available). The notebook was running Android 17 – so it’s not a Chromebook. It will likely offer the One UI customizations of the standard Googlebook user interface, but these are not yet known to us.
The Snapdragon X Elite is a 4nm chip with a total of 12 Oryon cores and an Adreno X1-85 GPU. Based on the clock speeds determined in the benchmark, we assume it is the X1E-80-100 chip (which is also used in the Dell and HP models).
In 2024, Samsung launched the Galaxy Book4 Edge, which ran Windows 11 on X Elite chips (X1E-80-100 for the 14-inch model and optionally X1E-84-100 for the 16-inch model). The company recently introduced the Galaxy Book6 Edge, which is equipped with a Snapdragon X2 Elite chip (X2E-88-100).
