The first design glimpse of Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, revealed that the chipset has a Heat Pass Block similar to Samsung’s Exynos 2600. Now, we get to see this solution live because a real-life chipset die has been pictured, showing a significantly bigger area than the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, indicating that we could bear witness to exceptional thermals in the future. Snapdragon is finally prioritizing thermals with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, with a new cooling solution The traditional PoP (Package-on-Package) implementation is expected to be retired with the arrival […]

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, scheduled to be held next month, will officially announce the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, but before that grand unveiling, the company’s desoldered flagship SoC has already gone on sale in China. At a price of $42, we doubt many will resist the urge to grab these units, but the only hurdle is how to make these chipsets work. The seller is not just offering free shipping for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro engineering samples, but says that the price is negotiable Considering that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen […]

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One of the first AnTuTu performance results surrounding the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is here, with the score showing a little over 20 percent increase compared to the fastest Android smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Of course, it should be noted that the scores can improve or degrade depending on various factors, so let us discuss those details below. New AnTuTu results show the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro breaking the 5 million score barrier The initial score was uploaded by Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station, showing that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 […]

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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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Another company that has thrown in the towel during the DRAM shortage is Qualcomm, with the latest report stating that the chipset manufacturer tried to hold off for as long as it could, but the company eventually caved in. Various unnamed products are expected to become pricier, with those likely being the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. Increased 2nm wafer costs, low smartphone demand, causing Qualcomm to bring a price hike An update from Bloomberg mentions that Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday, informing them that the double-digit price hike would […]

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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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Qualcomm will introduce its first 2nm chipsets later this year, but don’t expect these SoCs to share the same capabilities just because they utilize the same lithography. In fact, a tipster shares some specification differences between the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 to show the ‘Pro’ version will only be found in the ‘top of the line’ flagships arriving next year. Despite sporting the same CPU cluster, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro boasts a better GPU, increased graphics memory, and more We’ve mentioned before that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro […]

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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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Samsung has just made on-device AI substantially more practical by unveiling the next-gen UFS 5.0 storage solution, with read and write speeds that are over twice as fast as those of the previous UFS 4.1 standard. Samsung's UFS 5.0 storage solution "delivers a sequential read speed of up to 10.8 GB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 9.5 GB/s" According to Samsung, its UFS 5.0 storage solution "integrates the latest embedded memory interface standard from JEDEC, achieving unparalleled performance levels with the industry’s highest bandwidth of up to 10.8 gigabytes per second (GB/s)." The South Korean tech giant […]

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Imitation remains the highest form of flattery. After Samsung won plaudits for the Exynos 2600's novel Heat Path Block (HPB) thermal technology, Qualcomm, whose recent chips iterations have resembled a veritable inferno when it comes to their runaway heat issues, now appears to be flattering Samsung by copying its HPB tech for the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, albeit sloppily so. Qualcomm appears to be trying to tame the furnace-like credentials of its Snapdragon chips by emulating Samsung's most innovative thermal solution While clarifying that Qualcomm has prepared two and not six versions of its Snapdragon 8 Elite […]

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A previous leak revealing that there could be potentially six versions of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro has been clarified by new findings showing the block diagrams of Qualcomm’s first 2nm chipset. To minimize the confusion, the San Diego firm is prepping just two variants, one with LPDDR5X RAM support, while the top-end one will offer LPDDR6. However, don’t count out Qualcomm introducing binned models of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, because the way its handset business is hurting, it’ll need to adopt the “Apple” approach. Top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro may also offer Qualcomm […]

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Qualcomm appears determined to squeeze out Exynos 2700 from the upcoming Galaxy S27 series, and has prepared as many as six Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro variants to render Samsung Mobile spoilt for choice. Samsung LSI, however, is now reportedly equally adamant at not letting Qualcomm eat its lunch and is preparing an apt "response" to this gambit. Samsung's Galaxy S27 series is emerging as an unequivocal winner in the ongoing tussle between Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro variants and Samsung LSI's Exynos 2700 chip As we reported recently, Qualcomm is preparing as many as six variants […]

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The shift to TSMC’s 2nm process will make Qualcomm more competitive against Apple, but the biggest drawback is that the company’s chipsets are going to be astronomically expensive. Looking at the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s price, which was estimated to cost as much as $280 per unit, a new rumor says that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will kick it up a notch. At $300+, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro might only be adopted by ‘Ultra’ flagships, as the high price is expected to reduce adoption amid the ongoing RAM shortage Later this year, Qualcomm […]

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In an era of price gouging and intentional sabotage of one's competitors, as Apple appears to be doing right now, Qualcomm is seemingly taking the rare moral high ground by eschewing the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip just to push OEMs towards its pricey 'Pro' counterpart. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip appears good enough for most OEMs, muddying the demand outlook for its Pro variant The Weibo-based tipster, Digital Chat Station, has just penned an interesting post, highlighting the minimized disparity between the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip and its Pro counterpart (machine translated): […]

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Qualcomm shifting to TSMC’s 2nm process should deliver a major boost in CPU and GPU performance when the company officially introduces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 later this year. Unfortunately, a rumor states that this won’t be the case, because despite moving to a new architecture and CPU cluster, the compute performance won’t be extraordinarily higher than the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Thankfully, the GPU upgrades could offset the SoC’s lackluster compute capabilities. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro has a new ‘2 + 3 + 3’ CPU cluster, but it […]

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Qualcomm is rumored to be preparing not one, but two 2nm chipsets, with both SoCs having a myriad of differences between them to help manufacturers decide between using the top-end one for their most premium devices and reserving the standard version for slightly less expensive options. According to the newest rumor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 might share the same CPU cluster, but a tipster highlights a boatload of differences between the two silicones, starting with the GPU. The higher-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro is set to tower over the […]

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The current trajectory for Android flagship chipsets is a volatile path where companies like Qualcomm are focused more on boosting raw performance than paying attention to efficiency metrics. While we can understand the objective of obtaining bragging rights over Apple, these accolades will likely be limited to benchmarks. In short, the real-world experience of smartphones equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro could be heavily compromised as Qualcomm targets higher clocks. Based on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s TDP, its successor could reach as high as 30W if things are controlled quickly. Higher clock speeds target and the […]

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