Qualcomm's New Flagship Mobile Platform Is The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Qualcomm has launched nan Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which nan institution claims is nan "world's faster mobile system-on-a-chip." It was designed for flagship devices for manufacturers and smartphone brands that don't make their ain mobile platforms, pinch nan first devices equipped pinch nan SoC launching successful nan coming days. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is powered by nan company's third-generation Oryon CPU, which Qualcomm says "improves capacity by 20 percent and CPU powerfulness ratio by 35 percent." Overall, nan institution is claiming that nan level has a 16 percent little powerfulness draw, making it much businesslike and enabling longer "sustained performance."

The caller level promises "lightning-fast" app launches and app switching for amended multitasking. Qualcomm's AI Engine allows on-device AI processing, arsenic well, made imaginable by nan company's upgraded Hexagon NPU that's apparently 37 percent than its predecessor. "With Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, you are astatine nan halfway of your mobile experience," said Chris Patrick, nan SVP and procreation head for mobile astatine Qualcomm. "It enables personalized AI agents to spot what you see, perceive what you perceive and deliberation pinch you successful existent time."

In addition, Qualcomm says nan caller SoC is nan first mobile level to alteration signaling successful Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, giving creators nan expertise to movie connected their phones for professional-level productions. Several smartphone brands person already committed to utilizing nan caller level for their flagship devices, including Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Honor, iQOO, Nubia, POCO, realme, REDMI, RedMagic, ROG, Sony, vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE.