Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Chip with an Oryon CPU inside

Qualcomm has just announced their biggest change to the Snapdragon to date and it’s the Snapdragon 8 Elite Chipset. This chip is different from the others as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Chipset will be using an Oryon CPU inside which is an 8-core CPU with 2x prime and support for 5300MHz LPDDR5x RAM.

This new CPU is the same one that is being use on the Snapdragon X Elite chips which are being used by ARM PCs. This new chip from Qualcomm promises a 45% boost in CPU performance and also a 44% improved performance vs. the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. While on the graphics side, the new Adreno GPU inside it will be bringing in 40% improve performance. This will also be the first chip to bring Unreal Engine 5.3 and Nanite virtualized geometry system. The new Snapd

ragon 8 Elite is also bringing in the brand new Snapdragon X80 5G modem along with support for Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and support for Ultrawideband.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite will be coming to different Android smartphones including from ASUS, HONOR, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO, realme, Redmagic, Samsung, vivo, Xiaomi and more.