At Snapdragon Summit 2024, Qualcomm has launched its latest flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset previously Named Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. Qualcomm has packed 2nd-gen Oryon CPU cores on the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite is manufactured on TSMC’s 3nm (N3E) process node, featuring eight 2nd-gen Oryon CPU cores. Snapdragon powers Adreno 830 GPU, it brings a massive 40% uplift in graphics performance and a 35% improvement in ray tracing gaming performance
The new Hexagon NPU on the Snapdragon 8 Elite brings 45% faster AI performance over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Qualcomm claims Snapdragon 8 Elite aka 8 Gen 4 is 27% more power-efficient than Snapdragon 8 gen 3
Snapdragon 8 Elite Specifications
| Process Node | TSMC’s 2nd-gen 3nm (N3E) |
| CPU | Octa-core 2nd-gen Oryon CPU 2x 2nd-gen Oryon (4.32GHz) 6x 2nd-gen Oryon (3.53GHz) |
| AnTuTu score | over 3 million |
| GPU | Adreno 830 GPU HW-accelerated Ray Tracing |
| NPU | New Hexagon NPU On-device multimodal AI support |
| ISP | 4.3 Gigapixels per second Hexagon AI integration Erase objects from videos |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0 |
| Modem | Snapdragon X80 5G modem Peak Download Speed: 10 Gbps Peak Upload Speed: 3.5 Gbps |
| Storage / RAM Support | UFS 4.0 LPDDR5X (up to 5.3GHz) |