Qualcomm has introduced its latest mobile chipset, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and yes, it’s based on the brand’s renowned X Elite laptop chips.
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Lite is made of TSMC’s 3nm process. It will have the brand’s Oryon CPU with eight cores: two prime cores clocked at a whopping 4.32GHz and six performance cores at 3.53GHz. It is paired with a 34MB L2 cache and support for 5,300MHz LPDDR5X RAM.
Qualcomm claims that the new chip will offer 45% faster CPU performance with 44% better power efficiency than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Another big feature is support for Unreal Engine 5.3 and Nanite virtualized geometry system — a first for a mobile chipset. What’s more, the new Adreno GPU offers 40% better performance and power efficiency.
Of course, it’s getting substantial AI upgrades. The new Snapdragon 8 Elite has the new Hexagon NPU that handles AI tasks 45% faster with better performance per watt. It also gains Qualcomm’s AI Engine with multimodal Gen AI support.
Plus, it can handle large and small multimodal models with the capacity to run up to 70 tokens on SLMs.
The new chipset has an improved image signal processing (ISP) deeply integrated with the NPU. It offers better HDR, autofocus, and more natural-looking colors. Photo/video semantic segmentation and video object eraser have also been added — a feature we expect Android OEMs to have a lot of fan marketing about.
Finally, it has the new Snapdragon X80 6G modem, the first to have 6x download carrier aggregation and AI-powered mmWave range extension. The company claims it can achieve up to 10Gbps of download speeds and uploads of 3.5GHz.
The chip also has the new FastConnect 7900 Mobile Connectivity System, which puts the WiFi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and Ultra Wideband within a single 6nm chip.
You can expect the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite on the next flagship phones from brands like Samsung, Xiaomi, vivo, OPPO, HONOR, OnePlus, and more.