Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge at $2,100 gets NPU with 80 TOPS and 16GB RAM

Samsung presented the Galaxy Book6 Edge laptop in June 2026 at a price of 2100 dollars — the first laptop in the world on Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite processor, but with only 16 GB of RAM.

What's new in the processor

Galaxy Book6 Edge became the first laptop to receive the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite chip. Its neural processor (NPU) delivers 80 trillion operations per second (TOPS) — twice more than the 45 TOPS that limited the neural processor of the first generation Copilot+ PC.

The Copilot+ PC category is Microsoft's certification for laptops with a powerful enough NPU to run AI features directly on the device without constant cloud access. It is against this benchmark that Samsung compares the new chip: 80 TOPS versus 45 TOPS in the first generation of such devices.

• Price — 2100 dollars
• Processor — Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (first laptop with this chip)
• NPU — 80 TOPS, twice the 45 TOPS of the first generation Copilot+ PC
• RAM — 16 GB
• Design — the thinnest Galaxy Book ever in Samsung's product line

Why 16 GB of memory raised questions

At a price of 2100 dollars, the buyer gets only 16 GB of RAM — a configuration that you would expect to see in mid-range rather than flagship laptops. This is why the launch of Galaxy Book6 Edge is accompanied by controversy: a powerful new chip and doubled NPU performance sit alongside memory that for many AI-on-device and multitasking scenarios looks inadequate.

The thinnest Galaxy Book

Beyond the processor, Samsung also highlights industrial design: Galaxy Book6 Edge became the thinnest laptop in the Galaxy Book line in Samsung's entire history. The bet is on combining a compact chassis with a powerful NPU — that is, a laptop that looks like a regular thin ultrabook but by its stated characteristics is oriented toward AI-on-device tasks.

NPU race among laptop manufacturers

Snapdragon X2 Elite is part of a broader competition between Qualcomm, Intel, and other chip makers to see whose NPU in Windows laptops becomes more powerful. Since the launch of the Copilot+ PC category, each new generation of chips claims higher TOPS, and Galaxy Book6 Edge is one of the first laptops where this metric has doubled compared to the starting point in just a couple of years.

What this means

Galaxy Book6 Edge shows where the Windows laptop market on ARM architecture is heading: manufacturers compete in NPU power faster than in RAM capacity, even though memory is what determines how smoothly local AI models will actually work. For buyers, this means that when choosing a laptop for AI-on-device tasks, TOPS in specifications are no longer the only parameter to look at.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Samsung Galaxy Book6 Edge cost?

The laptop costs 2100 dollars and comes with 16 GB of RAM.

How does the NPU in

Galaxy Book6 Edge differ from the NPU in other Copilot+ PCs?

The NPU of the Snapdragon X2 Elite processor delivers 80 TOPS — twice the 45 TOPS that were the benchmark for first-generation Copilot+ PC neural processors.