Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 8 Elite, Bringing Console Gaming Performance to Smartphones!

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Qualcomm has just announced its newest smartphone chipset, Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is ready to revolutionize the world of flagship smartphones in the world.

Introduced at the annual Snapdragon Summit, Snapdragon 8 Elite is the most powerful smartphone chipset on the market today thanks to a combination of Qualcomm Oryon CPU and the latest AI technology.

With a 2 Prime core configuration reaching the highest speed on the market of up to 4.32GHz and 6 Performance cores with a speed of 3.53GHz, Snapdragon 8 Elite brings CPU performance up to 45 percent compared to the previous generation.

Additionally, Qualcomm’s new chipset is built using TSMC’s 3nm architecture process, making it more efficient with 44 percent lower power consumption.

Not only about speed, Snapdragon 8 Elite also provides an extraordinary gaming experience thanks to the new Adreno GPU.

Armed with this new GPU, the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor is claimed to be 40 percent faster and supports full features ray-tracing up to 35 percent.

This makes the graphics in the game feel much more realistic and immersive, like playing on a console.

Qualcomm also made a big move by bringing Nanite support from Unreal Engine 5.3, enabling console-level visual detail for AAA games on smartphones.

“AAA level games will soon be available for mobile devices,” Qualcomm said in a statement.

This new Qualcomm chipset is not only superior in gaming. On the artificial intelligence side, the new Hexagon NPU offers increased AI processing speed and is more power efficient by 45 percent.

Qualcomm also introduced a new AI Engine that supports multimodal AI models, enabling flagship smartphones with Snapdragon 8 Elite to run more complex AI tasks directly on the device.

Snapdragon 8 Elite will be present in various flagship smartphones from well-known brands such as Asus, Honor, OnePlus, Samsung and Xiaomi.

In Indonesia, iQOO 13 will be the first to bring this latest chipset to the market in the coming weeks.