New and intriguing details about the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 leak
Although the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC has only been official for a little over a month now, last week we already heard some rumors about its successor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6.
Today even more details have been outed in China. Intriguingly, it now looks like we'll have both the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro on the market next year.
Only the Pro version will support LPDDR6, and the two SoCs will also differ in their GPUs. Both will be made using TSMC's 2nm process, and will be using third-generation self-developed CPU cores, in a 2+3+3 configuration.
The Pro version will allegedly be around $70 more expensive than this year's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. If all of this is true, then it will be interesting to see which phone makers will choose to go with the 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro next year, and which will choose to save some money by opting for the non-Pro version.
Source (in Chinese)
Reader comments
- Anonymous
- D02
"Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro" At this point they should ditch the name and just refer to the processors by model number which would be more easy to remember and refer.
- RetroGamingOffline
- H8H
There are two of us who have the incredible SD8Gen3. And I was in the same situation as you regarding the purchase of a new device (in this case, between a new gaming smartphone and a SteamDeck-style portable gaming device) for portable gaming. ...
- Anonymous
- gXJ
If you're talking about the 6s Gen 1, that's a rebranded 662 - from 2020, no changes. I don't know what SoCs they rebranded using the 6 Gen 1 (the 7s Gen 2 is an overclocked version of the chip I think). As for the 685, it's an ov...
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