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Snapdragon 8 Elite 2: Early leak hints at over 20% CPU performance upgrade for Galaxy S26-series bound chipset

The Snapdragon 8 Elite made its debut last month. (Image Source: Qualcomm)
The Snapdragon 8 Elite made its debut last month. (Image Source: Qualcomm)
While Qualcomm's next-gen flagship mobile chipset is still eleven months away, a new leak has now revealed some information on it. Expected to be branded as the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, the SoC is said to deliver a sizeable 25% CPU performance upgrade over its predecessor.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite already looks to be a superb upgrade on last year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with Qualcomm's switch from typical ARM cores to Oryon delivering a 30% CPU jump in performance. While it's still early days, a new leak has now provided some insight into what to expect from next year's Snapdragon 8 Elite 2.

As shared by leaker Jukanlosreve and referencing Korean sources, both the successors to the Snapdragon 8 Elite—expected to be branded as the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2—and MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 are on course to deliver single-core scores in the region of 4000 on Geekbench 6. For some perspective, the Snapdragon 8 Elite typically scores around 3200 on that test, indicating a potential 25% jump in performance for its successor.

Of course, it remains to be seen how Qualcomm manages that while having the SoC run at acceptable temperatures. The Snapdragon 8 Elite, for all of its impressive peak performance, has hardly received praise for its thermal management—the chipset runs hotter than its predecessor, thanks to its sky-high 4.32 GHz clock speed. 

Interestingly, word on the grapevine previously claimed the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 would be not manufactured exclusively by TSMC, but in conjunction with Samsung. Those rumors look to be misguided, however, and it now seems like the chipset will be built only on TSMC's N3P node. 

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Ricci Rox, 2024-11-12 (Update: 2024-11-12)