Snapdragon 8 Elite: A New Era of Mobile Performance
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform is the pinnacle of Snapdragon innovation, representing a new era of mobile performance. With the introduction of the Qualcomm Oryon CPU, the Snapdragon 8 Elite delivers unprecedented performance, redefining the on-device experience.
Unprecedented Performance
The Qualcomm Oryon CPU is the fastest mobile CPU in the world, with peak CPU speeds of 4.32 GHz. Compared to the previous generation, it delivers a 45% boost in CPU performance and a 44% improvement in power efficiency. The mobile industry’s largest shared cache ensures insanely fast data retrieval while overall power savings of up to 27% extend gaming time by up to 2.5 hours.
Multimodal Gen AI
The Snapdragon 8 Elite features the Qualcomm AI Engine with multimodal Gen AI, revolutionizing interactions by understanding voice, text, images, and even the world through your camera. This AI engine can help with tasks ranging from everyday queries and summarization to advanced content creation. It can instantly become an expert on any subject by digesting entire book chapters and documents.
- Qualcomm AI Engine
- Qualcomm Adreno GPU
- Qualcomm Oryon CPU
- Qualcomm Hexagon NPU
- Fused AI accelerator architecture
- Hexagon scalar, vector, and tensor accelerators
- Hexagon Direct Link
- Micro Tile Inferencing
- Large shared memory concurrency support
- Upgraded power delivery system
- Support for mix precision (INT8+INT16)
- Support for all precisions (INT4, INT8, INT16, FP16)
- Qualcomm Sensing Hub
- Dual Micro NPUs for audio and sensors
- Dual Always-Sensing ISPs to support two concurrent Always-Sensing Cameras
- Support for INT precision
Revolutionary Gaming
The custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU and the first-ever Adreno GPU with sliced architecture deliver an unrivaled gaming experience. With stunning, film-quality landscapes, destructible environments, and realistic car chases, every quest, battle, and exploration becomes more intense and thrilling. The Adreno GPU’s sliced architecture ensures faster, smoother performance and optimized battery life, while support for Unreal Engine 5.3 with Nanite produces film-quality 3D environments for total immersion.
AI-Powered Camera
The Snapdragon 8 Elite features an AI-powered camera that redefines photography. The AI ISP enhances everything from selfies to crystal-clear video chats, while Limitless Segmentation recognizes and enhances virtually anything in the frame. AI-Based Pet Capture ensures that even furry friends appear crisp and cute, no matter how fast they move.
Studio-Quality Audio
With Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite, every beat, note, and lyric is exactly as the artist intended. Lag-free spatial audio transports you to entrancing mobile gaming worlds, while Qualcomm Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN) technology lets you wander from room to room with whole-building wireless coverage, ensuring consistent quality from smartphone to earbud.
AI-Enhanced Connectivity
The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first platform to combine the latest in AI-optimized 5G and Wi-Fi 7. Multi-gigabit speeds support gaming on-the-go, blazing downloads, and near-instant data backups. Hyper-accurate proximity technologies allow you to pinpoint your location and keep tabs on your belongings.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform represents a new era of mobile performance, delivering unprecedented power, speed, and efficiency. With its revolutionary AI capabilities, stunning camera features, immersive gaming experiences, studio-quality audio, and intelligent connectivity, the Snapdragon 8 Elite is poised to redefine the mobile landscape. Sources and related content
Snapdragon 8 Elite Specs”
CPU
- Qualcomm Oryon CPU
- 64-bit Architecture
- Prime core, up to 4.32 GHz
- Performance cores, up to 3.53 GHz
Camera
- Qualcomm Spectra Image Signal Processor
- AI ISP, Triple 18-bit ISPs
- Limitless real-time Semantic Segmentation photo and video processing
- Engine for Visual Analytics 4.0, including hardware acceleration for iToF depth sensors up to 4K 60 FPS
- Support for the latest HDR, DCG+VS, DCG, Staggered, QDOL Less Blanking, and Multiframe HDR image sensors
- Support for triple video capture from HDR image sensors, with seamless switching between any HDR mode
- Up to 48 MP triple camera @ 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag
- Up to 108 MP single camera @ 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag
- Up to 320-megapixel photo capture
- AI-based face detection, AI for 3A (auto-focus, auto-exposure, and auto-white balance)
- Rec. 2020 color gamut photo and video capture
- Up to 10-bit color depth photo and video capture
- 10-bit HEIF: HEIC photo capture, HEVC video capture
- Google Ultra HDR photo capture
- Video capture HDR formats: HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision
- 8K HDR video playback @ 60 FPS
- 4K video capture @ 120 FPS
- Slow-mo video capture at 1080p @ 480 FPS
- Hardware Bokeh Engine 2 for video capture
- Pro Sight video capture
- Ultra-low light video capture with AI Noise Reduction in 4K60 FPS
- Computational HDR video capture: Up to 4 exposures (with QDOL image sensors)
- Video super-resolution
- Massive Multi-Frame Noise Reduction with AI
- Locally Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering
- Enhanced AI video segmentation @ 4K60 FPS
- Real-time AI skin and sky tone adjustments in 4K60 FPS
- Truepic photo capture with C2PA-compliant certificate authority
Audio
- Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite
- Qualcomm aptX Adaptive and aptX Lossless audio
- Qualcomm Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN) technology
- Qualcomm Aqstic audio codec
- Qualcomm Agstic smart speaker amplifier
- Total Harmonic Distortion Noise (THD+N) Playback: -108 dB
- Qualcomm Aqstic Speaker Max
- Qualcomm Audio and Voice Communication Suite
- Spatial audio with head-tracking
Display
- On-Device Display Support: 4K@60 Hz, QHD+ @ 240 Hz
- Maximum External Display Support: Up to 8K @ 30 Hz, Up to 1080 @ 240 Hz
- Variable Refresh Rate support for 240 Hz to 1 Hz
- 10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut
- HDR10, HDR10+, HDR vivid, and Dolby Vision
Visual Subsystem
- Adreno GPU
- Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing with Global Illumination
- Support for Unreal Engine 5.3 running Nanite on smartphones
- Support for Unreal Engine Chaos Physics Engine
- Snapdragon Adaptive Game Configuration
- Snapdragon Game Super Resolution
- Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.1
- Snapdragon Game Post Processing Accelerator
- HDR gaming (10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut)
- Snapdragon Shadow Denoiser
- API support: OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0 FP, Vulkan 1.3
- Hardware-accelerated H.265, VP9, AV1 decoder
- HDR Playback Codec support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision
Security
- Truepic with C2PA for video and audio
- IP Protection for AI models
Location
- Concurrent GPS, Glonass, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NaviC
- Triple frequency GNSS (L1/L2C/L5)
- AI-based GNSS Location Gen 3
- Sensor-Assisted Positioning 6.0
- Urban pedestrian navigation with sidewalk accuracy
- Global freeway lane-level vehicle navigation
Charging
- Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Technology
Memory
- Support for dual-channel LP-DDR5x memory, up to 5.3GHz
- Memory Density: Up to 24 GB
Source: Qualcomm