A new name has been decided for Qualcomm’s latest and greatest SoC, thanks to the latest press image leak and it is the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The chipset has reportedly been designed on TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process and is the company’s first smartphone silicon that features custom in-house Oryon cores that promise incredible performance gains in both single and multi-threaded workloads. The new Adreno 830 that is paired with the Snapdragon 8 Elite also delivers a hefty uplift in pure rasterization and ray tracing acceleration, so let us check out all the details here.
New Snapdragon 8 Elite is also equipped with an NPU that is 45 percent faster to tackle on-device AI tasks but still supports LPDDR5X RAM
Formerly known as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, VideoCardz got a hold of the press image, revealing that the Snapdragon 8 Elite features a ‘2 + 4’ CPU cluster. The performance Oryon cores can reach up to 4.32GHz, while the efficiency ones can touch 3.53GHz. We witnessed the capabilities of these clock speeds when the OnePlus 13 was previously benchmarked using Geekbench 6, with the flagship obtaining the highest multi-core score for any smartphone, beating Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max powered by the A18 Pro. Qualcomm states that the CPU delivers 44 percent lower power consumption compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite boasts 24MB of L2 cache, with 12 MB of it in the performance cores and the remaining in the efficiency cores. As for the Adreno 830 GPU, Qualcomm claims that the latest addition delivers a 40 percent improvement and 35 percent bump in ray tracing acceleration compared to the previous generation. The graphics processor sports three slices, each running at a 1.10GHz clock speed. Additionally, the Snapdragon 8 Elite should be able to tackle AAA games because it supports modern graphics APIs.
The NPU, or Neural Processing Unit, has also been upgraded by being 45 percent faster, allowing it to breeze through on-device AI functions. There is no support for LPDDR6, but the Snapdragon 8 Elite supports faster dual-channel LPDDR5X memory running at 5.30GHz. As for connectivity, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is paired with the Snapdragon X80 5G modem, along with AI-Enhanced Wi-Fi 7 Integrated UWB and Qualcomm FastConnect 7900. More details are present in the press image, so you can check it out while we wait for the official announcement to kick off.
News Source: VideoCardz