According to reports, Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship processor, known as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2, will be a significant improvement over its predecessor. The new chip, which is anticipated to be released later this year, is expected to provide a number of significant improvements that should result in a significant increase in speed and efficiency. Recent rumors indicate that TSMC’s cutting-edge N3P 3nm process, which is claimed to provide superior performance and power efficiency over the N3E technology utilized for the current Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, would be used in its construction. For added versatility, the chip will continue to support LPDDR5X memory while supporting faster and more recent LPDDR6 memory. Based on the previously disclosed benchmark scores, it appears that this chip has the potential to surpass the current leader.
Raw performance is anticipated to have one of the most pronounced improvements. According to early estimates, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2’s enhanced CPU and GPU configuration could result in up to 30% higher performance. According to a Weibo post by tipster Digital Chat Station, the chip may have 16MB of cache for each GPU compute unit, for a total of 32MB of L2 cache. This is an improvement over the current 8 Elite’s 24MB. Better performance may result from this larger cache, particularly when multitasking and playing intense games.
According to reports, the next chip will also have second-generation Oryon CPU cores, which will be arranged in a novel way with two prime cores and six performance cores. One of the main causes of the anticipated performance increase could be this modification to the core structure. The Adreno 840 GPU, which is also rumored to be a part of the new chip, is expected to operate at a faster clock speed of 1.35GHz, as opposed to the 1.1GHz of the previous generation’s Adreno 830.
These enhancements are further supported by benchmark leaks. According to a previous report from March, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 received 4,000 points in single-core and 13,000 points in multi-core Geekbench tests. The performance of the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which we have seen in phones like the OnePlus 13 and the Galaxy S25 Ultra, has significantly improved. Furthermore, it was reported that the chipset’s overall AnTuTu score might reach 3.8 million.
If these figures are correct, Qualcomm appears to be developing its most potent mobile chip to date. Nevertheless, Qualcomm will probably not make the new processor public until later this year at the Snapdragon Summit. In the interim, leaks and early benchmarks give us a good indication of what to expect, but by the time the finished product is released, things may have changed.
