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Choose the Ai Smoke if you want the stronger 7- and 8-iron.
Choose the Elyte for Callaway's newer face and its three-part sole.
Elyte $849.99 · Paradym Ai Smoke $799.99, each with its shop and checked date
Two Callaway game improvement irons a year apart, the Ai Smoke the older, made for the same golfer, with an average to faster swing; Callaway's charts rate both High for forgiveness, both score 3 of 5 here, and its Quantum Max replaced both. Their offsets are close (3.0 mm at the Elyte's 7-iron, 2.8 mm at the Ai Smoke's). The Elyte is a degree weaker in the 7- and 8-iron (a 29° 7-iron against 28°) and in each wedge after the 42° PW they share. The Ai Smoke has a hollow body; the Elyte a frame joining the body to the top line so the face can flex, and a three-part sole with a sharper leading edge. The Elyte comes in a senior flex; the Ai Smoke in Callaway's light flex.
The Elyte X is the forgiving one: Callaway rates it highest for forgiveness in the Elyte line, against high for the Elyte, with an oversized cavity back, more offset (4.0 mm at the 7-iron against 3.0 mm), a wider sole and a thicker topline.
Callaway rates them as forgiving as each other: each is its mid-size game improvement iron of the year, rated high for forgiveness on Callaway's chart, with a 29° 7-iron and a three-part sole.
Two game improvement irons with nearly the same lofts: by the makers' tables they match from the 4-iron to the AW or UW (a 29° 7-iron and a 42° PW in both), but for the 6-iron, half a degree stronger on the Elyte.
Two game improvement irons of the same year that their makers rate High for forgiveness, a step below the Qi HL and the Ai Smoke HL, and both score 3 of 5 here.
