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Snapdragon 8 Elite 2: New leak predicts up to a 30% GPU performance uplift

The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 is tipped to arrive with some significant GPU upgrdes (image source: Qualcomm)
The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 is tipped to arrive with some significant GPU upgrdes (image source: Qualcomm)
Digital Chat Station, a well-known Weibo leaker, has some new information to share about the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Its GPU will get a massive performance boost thanks to increased cache and faster LPDDR6/LPDDR5X memory.

Now that the Snapdragon 8 Elite has been out and about for a while, rumours about its successor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, have started to surface. Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station has been on consistently posting about this, and today, we got to know about some of its GPU features.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite 2's Adreno GPU will get 16 MB of cache. This, plus a combination of other variables such as faster LPDDR6 or LPDDR5X memory and an increased CU count, should result in a 30% performance uplift over the Snapdragon 8 Elite's Adreno 830. On the CPU side, Digital Chat Station claims the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will be 25% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Elite, effectively confirming their own leak from a few days ago.

There are murmurs that it could finally outperform Apple's smartphone SoCs, but at this point, those have become an annual pre-launch rumour. Last year, The Undead, a slightly lesser-known Weibo leaker said last year that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 (then known as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5) would launch with significantly higher boost clocks (5.0 GHz on the P-cores, 4.0 GHz on the E-cores). But, no leaker has corroborated this. These figures may be accurate for a pre-production sample, but the final chip might have to tone down because the Snapdragon 8 Elite has a hard time maintaining its peak clocks as it is.

Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 GPU performance (image source: Digital Chat Station on Weibo)
Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 GPU performance (image source: Digital Chat Station on Weibo)
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Anil Ganti, 2025-04- 9 (Update: 2025-04- 9)