Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 make their debut
Qualcomm’s latest flagship chipsets are now official. The new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 mobile platforms are based on a 2nm process and feature Oryon CPU cores with a clock speed of up to 5.0 GHz. These are 64-bit Oryon CPUs paired with new Adreno GPUs and Hexagon NPUs.
Both chipsets feature two Prime cores with a clock speed of up to 5.0 GHz and six performance cores with up to 4.0 GHz. They are also equipped with 16 MB of Oryon FlexCache and support up to 24 GB of LPDDR5X/6 RAM with speeds of up to 5,300 MHz, as well as UFS 5.0 storage.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6: 13% faster CPU, 44% faster GPU
Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 offers 13% higher CPU performance, 37% better CPU energy efficiency, 44% higher GPU performance, and 35% improved NPU performance compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
The chipset also offers 33% higher AI performance per watt. According to Qualcomm’s specifications, the Extreme model has 50 percent more shared memory for the Hexagon NPU compared to the previous generation.
The standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, meanwhile, offers a 10% improvement in CPU performance, 37% better CPU energy efficiency, 35% higher GPU performance, and 14% improved NPU performance compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. It also offers a 20% improvement in AI performance per watt.
The new Snapdragon chipsets also offer significant improvements in video recording. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 supports 8K video recording at 60 frames per second and 4K slow-motion recording at 240 frames per second, while the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 supports 8K at 30 frames per second and 4K slow-motion recording at 120 frames per second.
The Xiaomi 18 Pro series, scheduled for release today, will be the first smartphone series to feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset. Motorola has also confirmed that the Signature 27 will be equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. The OnePlus 16 will also use the Extreme version.
