Qualcomm, a semiconductor big, has unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite cell platform on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui. Qualcomm stated that it’s the strongest and world’s quickest cell system-on-a-chip (SoC) ever. Additional, the corporate confirmed that its flagship cell chips will now be branded Elite. The brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite has a custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU, Qualcomm Adreno GPU, and an enhanced Qualcomm Hexagon NPU.
“These improvements empower the Snapdragon 8 Elite to rework person experiences with their gadgets – making on-device multi-modal generative AI purposes a actuality on smartphones powered by Snapdragon,” stated Qualcomm in a launch.
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The brand new chipset additionally comes with a brand new highly effective AI-ISP (Picture Sign Processor), together with next-level gaming, super-fast internet looking, and extra.
Highlights of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
Qualcomm stated that its Snapdragon 8 Elite has the quickest Hexagon NPU together with an on-device multi-modal Gen AI assistant making it a Gen-AI powerhouse. The Qualcomm Oryon CPU has a forty five% single-core and multi-core efficiency enchancment over the earlier technology chip. Gaming can also be 40% extra highly effective and ray-tracing is improved by 35%.
The chip’s Geekbench single-core efficiency is 3200+ and multi-core efficiency is 10000+. There are solely two effectivity cores whereas six cores are meant for efficiency.
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“We’re so excited to deliver the facility of Qualcomm Oryon to our Snapdragon cell platforms for the primary time. Earlier this yr we debuted it in PCs, delivering outstanding experiences and unparallel battery life to PC customers, energizing the trade and getting the eye of shoppers. At this time, our second technology of the Qualcomm Oryon CPU debuts in our flagship Cellular Platform – it is a main leap ahead and we anticipate shoppers to be thrilled with the brand new experiences enabled by our CPU know-how,” stated Chris Patrick, senior vp and normal supervisor of cell handsets, Qualcomm Applied sciences, Inc.
“With main CPU, GPU and NPU capabilities, the Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers dramatic efficiency enhancements and energy effectivity 3. As well as, it revolutionizes cell experiences by providing personalised, multi-modal generative AI immediately on the gadget enabling the understanding of speech, context, and pictures to boost every thing from productiveness to creativity duties whereas prioritizing person privateness,” he added.
