Another year, another flagship Qualcomm mobile chip. But with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company’s latest offering aimed at premium smartphones, things are said to be a bit different. First, it uses the debuting Oryon CPU X Elite chips for laptops last year, a Leaked slide from Videocardz. It also uses a new 3nm process node instead of last year’s 4nm node. This helps the Snapdragon 8 Elite deliver 45 percent faster single and multi-core performance, while using 27 percent less power than the smartphone. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
We’re still waiting for more details on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit later today, there’s still a lot we can learn from that single leaked slide. As expected, the company is doubling down on its generative AI capabilities with a 45 percent faster NPU (neural processing unit) than before, and gaming performance will also see a 40 percent boost. According to Videocardz, the 8 Elite will reach a maximum speed of 4.32 GHz on two cores and 3.53 GHz on six smaller cores.
Given how impressed we are with the Snapdragon X Elite Surface Pro and Surface laptop Copilot+ PCs, it’s not too surprising to see that the Oryon CPU works well in smartphones. According to Smartprix and It leaksEarly benchmarks of the Snapdragon 8 Elite show it scored 3,025,991 on Antutu, compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s best of 2.1 million.
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