Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme type too

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this twelvemonth joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The business describes the two new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are comparatively minor, mostly constricted to improved AI processing, video capture, and gaming achievement on the Extreme model.

Both Gen 6 chips are built on a 2nm process, and portion much in common, including their modems, display specs, safety features, GPS, and recollection and retention support. Qualcomm no longer publishes detailed breakdowns of the cores throughout its silicon, but the CPU particulars stated are identical, alongside two big cores at up to 5GHz and six achievement cores operating at up to 4GHz. Despite that, the Extreme is described as having slightly better achievement throughout its CPU, GPU, and NPU.

Some differences are additional clear-cut. The 8 Elite Extreme is capable of driving better video capture, including 8K at 60fps, 4K at 240fps, and assistance for the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec. A larger shared recollection pond for the NPU should run faster and additional productive AI achievement on the Extreme part too, during AI-dedicated matrix cores in the GPU (plus additional memory) should boost gaming achievement slightly whenever using AI features.

With center achievement apparently similar, the jump up to the Extreme part is comparatively minor, so it volition be engaging to see which chips manufacturers use for which phones. Motorola is the archetypal to jump on board, confirming that its newly announced Signature 27 flagship volition use the Extreme chip. Qualcomm has announced that the two chips volition additionally be adopted by Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, Honor, iQoo, Nubia, OnePlus, Redmi, Redmagic, and ZTE.