Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite is its next premium mobile chip

One other 12 months, one other flagship Qualcomm cellular chip. However issues are a bit completely different with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the corporate’s latest providing headed to premium smartphones. For one, it is utilizing the Oryon CPU that debuted in X Elite chips for laptops final 12 months, in response to a leaked slide from Videocardz. It is also utilizing a brand new 3nm course of node, as a substitute of final 12 months’s 4nm node. That helps the Snapdragon 8 Elite ship 45 % sooner single and multi-core efficiency whereas utilizing 27 % much less energy than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

Whereas we’re nonetheless ready for extra particulars on the Snapdragon 8 Elite at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit later at this time, there’s nonetheless loads we are able to be taught from that single leaked slide. As anticipated, the corporate is doubling down on its generative AI capabilities, with a forty five % sooner NPU (neural processing unit) than earlier than, and gaming efficiency will even see a 40 % increase. The 8 Elite will attain a most pace of 4.32 GHz throughout two cores, in response to Videocardz, and it will hit as much as 3.53 GHz in six smaller cores.

Given how impressed we had been by the Snapdragon X Elite within the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Copilot+ PCs, it would not be too stunning to see the Oryon CPU understanding effectively on smartphones. According to Smartprix and Onleaks, early benchmarks of the Snapdragon 8 Elite present it scoring 3,025,991 in Antutu, in comparison with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s better of round 2.1 million.

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