Qualcomm has introduced the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the company’s latest flagship Mobile Platform at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2023 event, as expected.
CPU
Compared to the predecessor, this uses Qualcomm’s 2nd gen custom Qualcomm Oryon CPU for mobile, with up to 4.32 GHz peak CPU speeds. This promises 45% boost in CPU performance in single and multi-threaded benchmarks, and 44% improved power efficiency compared to the predecessor.
It has 2 x Prime cores at up to 4.32 GHz and 6 x Performance cores at up to 3.53 GHz. There is fastest LPDDR5X memory at 5300MHz.
This has mobile industry’s largest shared cache delivers insanely fast data retrieval. The SoC promises up to 27% in overall power savings, extending the gaming time by up to 2.5 hours, said the company.
The 2nd Gen Qualcomm Oryon CPU is 30% faster vs 1st gen at iso-power and requires 57% less power. It is much faster compared to Apple A18 Pro in benchmarks.
It delivers up to 162% faster CPU performance vs Intel Core Ultra 7 Series 2 peak at iso-power, while Core Ultra 7 Series 2 peak performance requires 190% more power, said Qualcomm.
GPU
The custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU is the first-ever Adreno GPU with sliced architecture with dedicated memory for each slice—ensuring faster, smoother performance and optimized battery life. This promises 40% faster GPU performance improvement, 40% greater power efficiency and 35% increase in ray-tracing performance compared to the predecessor.
It is the first Mobile GPU to feature full support for Unreal Engine 5.3 Nanite for film-quality 3D environments fortotal immersion.
NPU
The Qualcomm AI Engine boasts the fastest Qualcomm Hexagon NPU, delivering a 45% AI performance improvement and 45% better performance per watt compared to the predecessor.
The Multimodal Gen AI revolutionizes interactions, understanding voice, text, images, and now it can even see the world through your camera to help with tasks, ranging from everyday queries and summarization to advanced content creation. Plus, it can also instantly become an expert on any subject by digesting entire book chapters and documents.
ISP
The new AI ISP is deeply integrated with the Hexagon NPU for enhanced, intuitive capture. The first AI-powered Limitless Segmentation that can segment an image in over 250 layers recognizes and enhances virtually anything in the frame, including faces, hair, clothing, objects, backgrounds, and beyond.
It offers real-time Insight AI captures and enhances natural skin and sky tones even in the most challenging conditions. Truepic with C2PA adds cryptographic seals so you can authenticate your photos as real
and not AI-generated—now including videos and audio recordings.
Video Object Eraser can remove unwanted elements from video footage—on-device. This supports vivid videos at 4K60 FPS, even in near darkness.
Connectivity
It has Snapdragon X80 5G Modem RF System that unites with Qualcomm 5G AI Suite Gen 3 for superior 5G performance and incredible multi-gig speeds.
It offers 30% improved location and positioning accuracy, even in parking structures. This is the first 4×6 MIMO solution for breakthrough connectivity performance and the first DSDA (Dual Data), now with global coverage, offers greater versatility through two SIMs.
It supports Wi-Fi 7 offering up to 5.8 Gbps speed and dual Bluetooth connectivity for sustained immersion, thanks to new Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 Mobile Connectivity System with integrated AI and up to 40% more power savings.
The Wi-Fi system supports High Band Simultaneous Multi-Link for the fastest global Wi-Fi speeds. It is also the first platform to integrate Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and UWB for proximity capabilities, helping to find lost items,
access secure buildings, and more.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (SM8750-AB) specifications
- 2 x Oryon Prime CPU at up to 4.32GHz, 6 x Oryon Performance CPUs at up to 3.53GHz
- 3nm Process Technology
- Built-in Qualcomm Snapdragon X80 5G modem-RF system
- 5G speeds of up to 10Gpbs down, mmWave: 8 carriers, 2×2 MIMO, Sub-6 GHz: 4×6 MIMO, Converged mmWave-sub-6 transceiver, Qualcomm 5G AI Suite Gen 3 includes: AI-enhanced performance improvements in power handling, coverage, latency, & QoS, AI-assisted mmWave beam management–mmWave (SA) range extension for CPE, AI-based GNSS Location Gen 3, Qualcomm 5G Al Processor Gen 2 with dedicated tensor
hardware accelerator, Qualcomm 5G PowerSave Gen 5, Fully integrated NB-NTN support, Qualcomm Smart Transmit Gen 5 technology with Snapdragon Satellite support, Qualcomm Wideband Envelope Tracking, 5G New Calling support, Qualcomm Power RF Efficiency Suite, Qualcomm® 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite, Qualcomm(R) RF Uplink Optimization, Global 5G multi-SIM, including Qualcomm DSDA Gen 2 - Qualcomm Adreno next-gen 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
- Up to 48MP triple camera, Up to 108 MP single camera with ZSL, Up to 320MP single camera, Qualcomm Spectra Image Sensor Processor (AI ISP, 18-bit triple-ISP)
- 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
- 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
- Capture 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, Realtime AI skin and sky tone adjustments in 4K60 FPS, Truepic photo capture with C2PA-compliant certificate authority
- On-Device Display Support: 4K at 60 Hz / QHD+ at 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
- Qualcomm Hexagon Processor, 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)
- Support for LP-DDR5x memory up to 5300 MHz, Memory Density: Up to 24 GB
- Wi-Fi 7 Peak speed: 5.8 Gbps, Wi-Fi 7 802.11be, 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) Multi-gigabit, Integrated 802.11ac 2×2 (2-stream) MU-MIMO, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6GHz, Bluetooth 6.0, LE Audio, Dual Bluetooth antennas, Integrated Ultra Wideband (UWB), IEEE 802.15.4z, FiRA, CCC
- Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite: Qualcomm aptX Adaptive and aptX Lossless audio, Qualcomm Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN) technology, Qualcomm Aqstic audio codec, Qualcomm Aqstic 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
- 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
- USB Version 3.1 Gen 2; USB Type-C Support, UFS 4.0
- Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 technology
Availability
Qualcomm said that ASUS, HONOR, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO, realme, Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi, and more, are poised to launch devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite, in the coming weeks.