Galaxy S26 Ultra's Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 AP to get huge speed jump

Correction: An earlier version of this story had the performance core of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 listed as the Cortex-X925. Of course

Weibo post released to fans only about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 from leaker The Undead. | Image credit-Weibo

The leaker, known as The Undead on Weibo, says that the Snapdragon Gen 5 AP will continue to sport the 2 + 6 configuration that will be used on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The latter will feature two Qualcomm homegrown Oryon performance CPU cores running at a clock speed of up to 4.37GHz along with six Qualcomm homegrown Oryon efficiency CPU cores at a clock speed of up to 2.8GHz.

The Undead, whose track record is unknown, says that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will be built by TSMC on its third-gen 3nm process node (N3P) with two performance cores running at a clock speed as fast as 5GHz. The six efficiency cores will have a clock speed peaking at 4GHz. These speeds are only expected for the variant of the AP that will be built by TSMC. The version of the chip to be made by Samsung Foundry is expected to be manufactured using the latter’s SF2 2nm node and the clock speeds for that version of the chipset are not known.

If Qualcomm does dual source the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 AP, it will be interesting to see the Geekbench results of the SoC from both foundries since the performance and efficiency of Samsung Foundry’s 2nm tech could tilt the results in favor of its version of the AP regardless of clock speed.