Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 launching early, confirmed for September

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Qualcomm has officially confirmed that its next flagship Snapdragon chipset, widely expected to be the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, will be unveiled earlier than its predecessor. The announcement came today during the company's Computex presentation in Taiwan, revealing that the annual Snapdragon Summit will occur from September 23 to September 25.

This confirms recent rumours suggesting an earlier launch for Qualcomm's top-tier mobile silicon. The Snapdragon Summit is the traditional platform for the unveiling of the company's latest and greatest Snapdragon processors.

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Qualcomm debuts flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite processor

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You can expect the upcoming generation of Android flagships to feature Qualcomm's newest chipset. The company announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite, unifying its naming scheme with the ARM-based X Elite laptop chips. Like those processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite has an Oryon CPU with a custom eight-core structure consisting of 2x prime cores clocked at 4.32GHz and 6x performance units running up to 3.53GHz. This CPU is paired with a 24MLB cache and supports 5,300MHz LPDDR5X RAM.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is fabricated on TSMC's 3nm process, promising a 45% improvement in CPU performance and a 44% power efficiency boost over its predecessor. Meanwhile, on the graphics side, the Snapdragon 8 Elite gets a redesigned Adreno GPU that boosts performance by 40% and improves its power savings as well as its ray-tracing capabilities. This system-on-chip will be the first mobile SoC to support Unreal Engine 5.3 and the Nanite virtualized geometry system.

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