“It is the fastest CPU mobile in the world.” Qualcomm is not in detail when he talks about his new high -level socks that will equip Star smartphones for the coming months. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is its name, it is the mobile counter of S Snapdragon X2 Elite announced on the side of the PC.
This soc, a chip that brings together the processor, the graphic chip and the part in charge of the calculations linked to the AI, becomes successful in the Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4, Logique) launched last year, but responds especially to the 9500 dimension of MediaTek, its great Taiwan competitor.
An overwhelmed chip designed for AI without consuming more
To keep the tall in the competition, Qualcomm slides its third generation of CPU Oryon Hearts in this chip, whose high performance hearts can climb to 4.6 GHz and the six hearts to 3.62 GHz Qualcomm announces the performance profits that go from 20 to 17%, depending on whether one or more hearts are requested, but what attracts attention, as for PC Flea Diego is the optimization of the consumption of consumption. PERFORMANCE EQUALITY. Here, the part of the CPU would attract 35% less electricity for the same result. It’s colossal!
For its part, the graphic part, Adreno, is considered 23% more efficient than the previous generation at stake. The profits that are still accompanied here with a 20% drop in consumption, depending on Qualcomm.
But, in the hour, where Apple adds neuronal accelerators to the GPUs of its mobile chips to increase the performance of its iPhone, Qualcomm could not neglect the part of its chip dedicated to the “intelligent” calculations. Integrated NPU shows performance gains of around 37% compared to the previous generation. According to the manufacturer, it is ready for the era of intelligent agents, understand these multimodal AI attendees (voice, text, video, etc.) that can interact for you with several applications to perform more complex tasks for you. Agents who gain relevance thanks to the skills of the Snapdragon Elite 8 Gen 5 to ensure that it has enough power in the device to learn from their habits and access the different sensors at any time to take into account the environment. All, of course, “without exhausting the battery.”
It is also the heart of Qualcomm communication: even if your chip is very powerful, it is cheaper in energy thanks to artificial intelligence. The AI, always, will also be used to process images and videos to improve them.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will undoubtedly equip many Android smartphones in the coming months. Qualcomm was content to announce the partners, not having some models to present. Therefore, we can have Honor, Oppo, Realme, Xiaomi and Samsung between the late 2025 and the summer of 2026.
It would not be surprising to see that this chip arrives in the future Galaxy S26 Ultra, understood in Europe, where Samsung sometimes prefers its own chips for more classic models.
However, OnePlus was the first to draw, confirming that the OnePlus 15, its next standard bearing smartphone, will be equipped with it: “integrates the detailmax engine for a professional photograph of exceptional clarity and the ultra fast oxygen system,” specifies the manufacturer, which promises news in “The Woney Weeks.”
Definitive question: What will the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 give in front of the latest A19 Pro chips, Apple. For several years, Qualcomm has regularly steal the iPhone fleas program, before being quickly trapped in the pass. With this new generation, the war is undoubtedly far from finishing.
Source: BFM TV
