One other 12 months, one other flagship Qualcomm cell chip. However issues are reportedly 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, based on a leaked slide from Videocardz. It is also utilizing a brand new 3nm course of node, as an alternative of final 12 months’s 4nm node. That helps the Snapdragon 8 Elite ship 45 p.c quicker single and multi-core efficiency whereas utilizing 27 p.c 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 present, 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 p.c quicker NPU (neural processing unit) than earlier than, and gaming efficiency may even see a 40 p.c increase. The 8 Elite will attain a most pace of 4.32 GHz throughout two cores, based on Videocardz, and it will hit as much as 3.53 GHz in six smaller cores.
Given how impressed we have been by the Snapdragon X Elite within the Floor Professional and Floor Laptop computer Copilot+ PCs, it would not be too stunning to see the Oryon CPU understanding effectively on smartphones. In accordance with 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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