The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the Most powerful mobile chipset ever created by Qualcomm. The semiconductor firm has just presented it at the Snapdragon Summit 2024 and is betting – of course – on more artificial intelligence, although at the level of characteristics its greatest novelty is the new CPU cores which include and which aim to shorten the performance gap between smartphones and PCs.
If the name ‘Elite’ associated with the Snapdragon sounds familiar to you, it is because Qualcomm released them a few months ago for the new laptops for the Copilot+ PC platform. These SoCs mount the cores of CPU ‘Oryon’which are precisely the biggest novelty of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. To understand each other, Qualcomm has moved them now from laptops to mobile phones and tablets.
Snapdragon 8 Elite, more performance
The Qualcomm chip uses the same architecture as in PCs, with eight-core CPUs (two Prime with a frequency of up to 4.32 GHz and six Performance up to 3.53 GHz). Company promises extensive performance improvements of raw processing, in graphics and in tasks that involve AI tasks.
Compared to the most powerful mobile SoC up to date, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, promises:
CPU improvements
- 45% increase in single-core performance
- 45% increase in multi-core performance
- 44% energy savings
GPU improvements
- 40% overall graphics improvement
- 35% ray tracing improvement
- 40% energy savings
NPU improvements
- 45% faster NPU
- Improved performance per watt by 45%
Qualcomm assures that the new chips consume approximately 27% less energy than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with the noted performance improvements. Impressive, if they deliver… you already know that marketing promises do not usually translate into the real world. Also, it’s worth remembering that although the new mobile chips use the same architecture as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon undertake the same tasks. But the lines between mobile phones and PCs are blurring. As long as Qualcomm’s promises are kept.
Other characteristics of interest are those of connectivity and for them a Qualcomm Snapdragon Also a FastConnect 7900 wireless system with support for “AI-enhanced Wi-Fi 7”.
Also includes improvements to camera support with photo capture up to 320 megapixels (or video capture up to 4K at 120 fps) and AI-enhanced photography features. Supports 24-bit, 96 kHz lossless audio, and 4K displays (at 60 Hz) or displays with 240 Hz refresh rates (with QHD+ resolutions).
Mobile phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite?
The first devices with the new chipsets will be announced “in the coming weeks”. From what is being announced, they will have great adoption to power the highest range of all manufacturers that work with Android and buy some of their chips from Qualcomm. In a non-exhaustive list you can include Samsung (Galaxy S25), ASUS (ROG Phone 9), Honor (Magic 7), iQOO, OnePlus, Oppo, RealMe (GT 7 Pro), Vivo and Xiaomi for the 13 series.
These Snapdragon 8 Elite aim really well, but as I said: as long as the marketing is transferred to the real world. Something that has not happened with the chipsets used in laptops.
Source: www.muycomputer.com
