At today’s Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm will officially announce its flagship SoC for smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Snapdragon 8 Elite is a significant upgrade from the previous generation, with improvements across the board. Qualcomm will also change the naming scheme for its flagship SoC from Snapdragon 8 Gen X to Snapdragon X Elite.
Snapdragon 8 Elite is built using TSMC’s 3nm process node, delivering significant performance and efficiency improvements. For the first time, Qualcomm is equipping a smartphone with its in-house developed Oryon custom ARM CPU. The new Prime Core and Performance Core architectures feature 24 MB cache and can reach frequencies of 4.32 GHz, delivering performance improvements such as:
- 45% increase in single core
- 45% multi-core improvement
- 63% improvement in web browsing performance
Gallery: Snapdragon 8 Elite
The Snapdragon 8 Elite’s GPU delivers 40% more performance and 35% more ray tracing. Snapdragon 8 Elite is a huge step forward when it comes to AI performance with NPU. With the fastest Qualcomm Hexagon NPU (6-core vector accelerator and 8-core scalar accelerator), you can get 45% better performance compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 NPU.
In addition to improved performance, Snapdragon 8 Elite also offers superior power efficiency. Qualcomm claims power-saving improvements such as:
- 44% CPU
- 40% GPU
- 45% AI performance/watt
- 27% of total SoC
The Snapdragon 8 Elite is powerful when it comes to camera features, supporting 4.3 gigapixels per second and increasing throughput by 33%. Features unlimited segmentation, AI rewriting, AI pet suite, video magic eraser, and more. In terms of connectivity, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is equipped with a Snapdragon X80 modem, Qualcomm FastConnect 7900, and supports Wi-Fi 7.
said Chris Patrick, senior vice president and general manager of mobile devices at Qualcomm Technologies.
“With cutting-edge CPU, GPU, and NPU features, Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers dramatic performance improvements and power efficiency3. Additionally, by delivering personalized, multimodal generative AI directly on the device, , revolutionizes the mobile experience by enabling the understanding of speech, context, and images to improve everything from productivity to creative tasks, while prioritizing user privacy. ”
Qualcomm is expected to reveal more details about the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC later today. With superior specifications and features, this new SoC is ready to power the next generation of premium smartphone experiences.
update:
Qualcomm has revealed that several Android OEM companies, including ASUS, Honor, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO, RealMe, Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi, etc., are planning to launch smartphones powered by Snapdragon 8 Elite. .
Source: Qualcomm
