Another year, another Qualcomm flagship mobile chip. But things are a little different with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company’s new offering towards flagship smartphones. For one, it uses the Oryon CPU that debuted with the X Elite chips in laptops last year, according to a leaked slide from Videocardz. It also uses a new 3nm process node, instead of last year’s 4nm node. That helps the Snapdragon 8 Elite deliver 45 percent faster single-core and multi-core performance while using 27 percent less power than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
While we await more details on the Snapdragon 8 Elite at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit later today, there’s still a lot to learn from that one leaked slide. As expected, the company is doubling its AI productivity capabilities, with a 45 percent faster NPU (neural processing unit) than before, and game performance will also see a 40 percent increase. The 8 Elite will reach a maximum speed of 4.32 GHz for all two cores, according to Videocardz, and will reach 3.53 GHz for six smaller cores.
Given how impressed we were with the Snapdragon X Elite in the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop Copilot+ PC, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see the Oryon CPU perform well in smartphones. According to Smartprix and Onleaks, the first benchmarks of the Snapdragon 8 Elite show that it scored 3,025,991 on Antutu, compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s best of about 2.1 million.
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