Qualcomm Officially Unveils The Snapdragon 8 Elite, A Few Hours After Its Press Image Leak; Here Is Everything Else You Did Not Know

A previous press image leak revealed a considerable amount of information about the Snapdragon 8 Elite, including the fact that Qualcomm has decided to choose a different name for its flagship chipset. While we will touch down on some of the specifications that were mentioned earlier, our main focus will be on everything that the company announced now, so let us dive into the details.

Snapdragon 8 Elite can deliver up to a 45 percent performance boost compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

The 8-core CPU cluster is said to be up to 44 percent more efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and that is thanks to the Snapdragon 8 Elite employing TSMC’s 3nm ‘N3E’ architecture. Additionally, Qualcomm claims that the new SoC can achieve up to a 45 percent performance boost in single-core and multi-core tests. As for the GPU, the Adreno 830 is 40 percent faster and 40 percent power efficient compared to last year’s Adreno 750, with the company stating that portable gaming sessions will last up to 2.5 hours longer.

Coming to on-device AI capabilities, the Snapdragon 8 Elite supports up to 70 tokens per second on certain AI models, but Android Authority was not informed about the size of these models. For those who do not know, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can support Large Language Models (LLMs) with 10 billion parameters at almost 15 tokens per second or the Llama 2 7B (seven billion) model at 20 tokens per second.

Apart from the chipset’s name change, Qualcomm’s Spectra ISP (Image Signal Processor), has been re-branded to AI ISP and delivers 4.3 gigapixels per second of throughput, up from 3.2 gigapixels per second in the previous chipset. Multi-sensor support of 48MP + 48MP + 48MP is present, along with 108MP single camera support at 30FPS, with an upgrade to 320MP still imaging, up from 200MP from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

Video recording capabilities of the Snapdragon 8 Elite are limited to 4K 60FPS, whereas they are 8K 60FPS on the Dimensity 9400. Then again, there is no telling which phone maker will be willing to add an 8K 60FPS option, as camera overheating and over-consumption of the internal memory can happen. Qualcomm has a multitude of phone partners such as ASUS, HONOR, Iqoo, OnePlus, OPPO, Realme, Samsung, Vivo, and Xiaomi that will take advantage of the Snapdragon 8 Elite in their flagships, so let us stay tuned for their launches.