Each year, Qualcomm introduces a new upscaling technology that’s marketed as a game-changing feature, with the company now rumored to bring AI Frame Fusion exclusively to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. While we should be excited for what the feature brings to the table, we’ve also realized that without any meaningful use cases, with the most important one being increased gaming performance, the feature will practically be useless. Standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 to miss out on AI Frame Fusion due to the lack of Matrix ALU blocks Similar to how the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 […]

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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 might overwhelm smartphones due to its higher power requirements when running taxing workloads, but give it sufficient breathing room, complemented with proper cooling, and it’ll produce results that you wouldn’t believe possible. In the latest comparison, Qualcomm’s latest and greatest SoC proves it can effortlessly take on AMD’s Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme and deliver equivalent framerates in games while utilizing nearly half the power and half the internal space. After looking at these results, you’d be convinced that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro can secure a spot in gaming handhelds, but there are other […]

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A timed-exclusive deal between Qualcomm and Samsung allowed the latter to equip its Galaxy S26 lineup with a non-binned version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with higher CPU and GPU clock speeds, but the Korean giant has something special planned for its Galaxy Z Fold 8 series to bring some form of differentiation to its foldable smartphone series. Based on the latest rumor, the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will be an even better binned part where the SoC delivers superior AI performance compared to the same SoC powering the Galaxy S26 lineup. New rumor claims the Snapdragon […]

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Despite the substantial strides taken by Samsung LSI in designing a thermally stable Exynos 2600 chip and an even better Exynos 2700, courtesy of the all-new Side-by-Side (SbS) packaging and the Heat Path Block (HBP) heat sink, Samsung Mobile appears to be doubling down on its dual-chip strategy. A slew of anecdotal evidence suggests Samsung is giving Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 an outsized role within the upcoming foldables, including the Galaxy Z Flip 8, while reserving the lion's share of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6/Pro for the Galaxy S27 Series. Samsung's Exynos 2600 to power the Galaxy […]

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A ton of attention is being focused on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, but only a modicum of it is being diverted to the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. After a torrent of leaks surrounding Qualcomm’s top-end SoC, some fresh information has leaked involving the company’s other 2nm chipset, with details revealing that it’ll share a similarity with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. However, don’t count on this as positive news, because Android phone makers will still be forced to pay a hefty premium for the silicon. Qualcomm to maintain the same package size for Snapdragon […]

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Samsung LSI sought to exploit Samsung Mobile over the past few months by repeatedly hiking the per unit price of its flagship Exynos 2600 chip. Well, Samsung Mobile now appears to be responding to these relentless price gouging tactics by reducing the share of the Exynos 2600 chip within the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8, while increasing its uptake of Qualcomm's more economical Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. Samsung's Exynos 2600 chip is reportedly falling a victim to the fairly myopic ongoing in-house feud that has rendered the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip a much more economical alternative […]

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A vapor chamber in a premium smartphone has almost become a necessity these days if chipsets are expected to perform at their optimum levels. Thankfully, Samsung went a step further with its Exynos 2600 by introducing its Heat Pass Block (HPB) technology, which drops a copper heatsink on top of the SoC die to help with heat transfer. Now, it appears that this approach has several practical uses, as tests show that even a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with liquid-nitrogen cooling cannot perform as well, not to mention that it’s far too dangerous. Sadly, even the Exynos 2600 undergoes throttling, but […]

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One of the first recipients of TSMC’s 2nm ‘N2P’ process will be the Dimensity 9600 Pro, enabling MediaTek to move over to a new CPU cluster while also rumored to target higher 5.00GHz clock speeds for significantly improved single-core and multi-core performance. Now, one tipster has shared the first Geekbench 6 scores belonging to the chipset, with the results being up to 25 percent faster than the A19 Pro, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and the Dimensity 9600 Pro’s immediate predecessor, the Dimensity 9500. At a 5.00GHz clock, the Dimensity 9600 Pro has already been pointed out to overheat, suggesting that commercial […]

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We all know Apple's A-series chips are some of the most efficient consumer-grade processors in the market, with the new A19 Pro chip also meticulously adhering to this well-established pattern. While multi-chip comparisons are a convoluted exercise at the best of times, a single metric - instructions per CPU clock cycle - is sufficient to delineate the unequivocal superiority of Apple's A19 Pro chip architecture versus that of its competitors, which include MediaTek's Dimensity 9500, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and Samsung's Exynos 2600. Apple's A19 Pro chip is an unequivocal winner when it comes to processor efficiency, leaving […]

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Update: It turns out that the application that emulates PC games, GameHub, was reporting a faulty reading that doubled the displayed wattage. While playing Resident Evil Requiem, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was consuming 24.1W peak power, not 48.3W. The absence of native AAA games on the Android platform isn’t a weakness for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, as Qualcomm has equipped it with sufficient processing juice where it can effortlessly run those visually attractive titles at higher framerates. Unfortunately, in pursuit of making the SoC capable enough in this regard, the San Diego firm has lost sight […]

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Samsung has once more been proven incorrect as its false claims of the 2nm GAA process have been highlighted in a new smartphone battery drain test, where the Exynos 2600 version of the Galaxy S26 is pitted against the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 variant. While both handsets are exactly the same in all areas, it is the runtime that records a massive difference of 2 hours and 38 minutes, according to one YouTuber’s testing. Strenuous tasks performed on the Exynos 2600, such as video encoding, result in overheating and faster battery drain The two Galaxy S26 models were tested as fairly […]

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The Exynos 2600 is Samsung’s first 2nm GAA chipset, with the advanced lithography promising better performance and efficiency over the company’s older manufacturing processes. However, those claims are busted in the latest benchmark comparison, where the chipset ends up reaching 30W of peak power draw, making it equivalent to what some notebooks consume. It is also disappointing to see that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is significantly more efficient than its rival, proving that TSMC’s foundry is ahead of its rivals. A Decompression Test shows the Exynos 2600 requiring 63 percent more power while completing the task slightly longer than the […]

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A truckload of benchmark leaks surrounding the Exynos 2600 gave us a sliver of hope for Samsung’s first 2nm GAA chipset, and it should have already been known that the SoC would be compared against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 shortly after the Galaxy S26 series went official. Well, here’s your first synthetic performance results comparison, where both silicon have been tested using Geekbench 6’s single-core, multi-core, and OpenCL benchmarks, with the Exynos 2600 possessing a faster GPU, but slower CPU. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy is up to 18% faster than Exynos 2600 in Geekbench 6’s single-core & […]

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