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TL;DR
- A leak has revealed clearer details of the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chipset.
- The chip may offer the same Oryon CPU technology as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, along with a powerful GPU.
- In other words, it could be a great flagship phone processor in its own right.
Qualcomm will introduce two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series processors later this year. We’ve already heard the first details about the apparent Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Gen 6 Pro, but a new leak has given us a clearer picture of the standard chipset.
Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station provided a few more details about the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. See the machine translated post below.
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This latest post has a few new details, starting with the “next generation” Oryon CPU. This suggests that the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 may share the same fundamental CPU architecture as the Pro model. However, the leaker reiterates that the standard model has 6MB of system-level cache, and the Pro chip beats it in that respect.
A major GPU upgrade on the cards
We’ve previously heard that the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip could feature an Adreno 845 GPU with 12MB of dedicated graphics memory. However, Digital Chat now adds that this GPU has a six-slice sliced architecture. The Snapdragon 8 Elite In late 2024, it debuted a new GPU architecture that splits the GPU into several distinct slices. Each of these slices has its own individual clock speeds, shader cores, and fixed function blocks. This would be a significant improvement on paper over the Snapdragon 8 Elite (three slices). Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (two slices), although we’re not quite sure how it compares to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. However, the rumored six-slice design paired with 12MB of dedicated graphics memory could make for a chipset with a more powerful GPU than Qualcomm’s first Elite chip.
Digital Chat Station previously published details such as the 2nm TSMC design, CPU core architecture, and RAM/storage support. However, they noted at the time that the Pro version will offer more cache (such as 18MB of graphics memory), as well as support for the latest RAM and storage features.
The standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 still looks like a powerful flagship phone processor in its own right. So you can get a tasty chip without opting for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro variant. Still, we’ve got our fingers crossed that Qualcomm doesn’t make any massive downgrades (such as camera or AI) compared to the Pro chip.
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