Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip
News Mobile Smartphones Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip The extreme variant comes with 50 percent more shared memory, wider codec support and better video capture. Based on a 2nm process node, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 features an eight-core Oryon CPU composed of two prime cores with clockspeeds of up to 5GHz. The chip also has 16MB of what Qualcomm is calling Flex Cache, which the company says allows the processor to dynamically allocate the cache pool to improve single-threaded performance.
- ▪News Mobile Smartphones Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip The extreme variant comes with 50 percent more shared memory, wider codec support and better video capture.
- ▪Based on a 2nm process node, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 features an eight-core Oryon CPU composed of two prime cores with clockspeeds of up to 5GHz.
- ▪The chip also has 16MB of what Qualcomm is calling Flex Cache, which the company says allows the processor to dynamically allocate the cache pool to improve single-threaded performance.
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- ▪ Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores (Axel Metz/TechRadar) — Techmeme
- ▪ Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too — The Verge
- ▪ Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 vs 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6: Qualcomm explains how (and why) its two newest flagship mobile chipsets differ — TechRadar
- ▪ Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 — 9to5Google
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News Mobile Smartphones Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip The extreme variant comes with 50 percent more shared memory, wider codec support and better video capture. By Sam Rutherford Sept. 22, 2026 4:00 pm EST Qualcomm Add Engadget on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Now that most of the major smartphone releases are done for the year, Qualcomm is preparing for the next generation of handsets with its upcoming flagship mobile chip and this time it will be available in two versions: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Based on a 2nm process node, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 features an eight-core Oryon CPU composed of two prime cores with clockspeeds of up to 5GHz.
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