The Snapdragon 8 Elite offers major improvements in almost every area.
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Qualcomm presented its latest system chip, which is called the Snapdragon 8 Elite, and it attacks the top category of the market with completely self-developed ARMv9 cores and an integrated 5G modem, while it is produced on TSMC’s 3 nm node. The parameters of the new, ultra-mobile solutions product are detailed in the table below:
| Type | Snapdragon 8 Elite |
|---|---|
| Modem | integrated (LTE/5G – X80) |
| Processor architecture | ARMv9 |
| Heterogeneous design | DynamIQ |
| number of CPU cores, clock and type |
2 darab, 4,32 GHz Oryon Prime 6 darab, 3,53 GHz Oryon Performance |
| IGP type | Adreno |
| Memory bus | 4×16 bites |
| Supported memory | LPDDR5X (effective 10667 MHz) |
| Multimedia co-processor | HEVC (decode/encode, 10 bit HDR), AV1 (decode) |
| DSP and NPU type | Hexagon NPU |
| Triple ISP | 320 / 3 x 48 megapixel (Spectra) |
| Production technology | 3 nm (TSMC) |
Qualcomm is introducing very serious changes compared to the previous generation designs. Among other things, they will completely switch to Oryon cores, which are also used by the Snapdragon X series aimed at PCs. Even within this, the processor part is divided into two clusters: a two-core Prime and a six-core Performance design. The Prime cores are capable of a higher clock speed and have an L1 cache of 192 kB, while the Performance cores run at a lower clock speed, with a 128 kB L1 cache, while both clusters have a 12 MB L2 cache each.
The Adreno IGP has also been significantly improved, it is a relatively new design. It consists of three shader arrays clocked at 1.1 GHz, sharing a 12 MB GMEM cache. Unfortunately, the exact structure is not public, but according to Qualcomm, this is their first design that has compute capabilities that enable the system to run virtualized geometry, such as the Unreal Engine 5 Nanite implementation.
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AI also gets a serious focus, and the new Hexagon NPU gets six vector and eight scalar units in addition to tensor processors, ensuring the local running of more serious LLMs.
Qualcomm intends the Snapdragon 8 Elite mostly for high-end smartphones, and devices based on it will arrive soon.
Source: prohardver.hu
