Snapdragon 8 Elite 2: Leaker reveals highlights of Qualcomm's new flagship smartphone chipset like 100 TOPS NPU
Digital Chat Station has delivered fresh insights into the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, which they suggested Qualcomm would unveil in late September. For context, the leaker previously claimed that the same chipset would surpass the Snapdragon 8 Elite in CPU and GPU benchmarks by a wide margin.
In a recent post on Weibo, Digital Chat Station reiterates that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will leverage Oryon Gen 2 CPU cores built on TSMC's N3P nodes. Sporting an Adreno 840 GPU with two prime and six performance CPU cores, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 also appears to utilise the Armv9 architecture by virtue of its support for ARM's Scalable Matrix Extension 1 (SME 1) and Scalable Vector Extension 2 (SVE2).
Digital Chat Station adds that Qualcomm will complement these improvements with 33% more L2 cache totalling 16 MB and an NPU capable of delivering up to 100 TOPS in theoretical performance. The leaker suggests that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will deliver display brightness upgrades too via other hardware-level changes. Although specifics remain unknown for now, we would not be surprised if the successors to the likes of the OnePlus 13, Xiaomi 15 and Galaxy S25 Ultra (curr. $1,067.99 on Amazon) are marketed on this basis throughout late 2025 and into early 2026.
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