At the Snapdragon Summit 2025, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its newest and most powerful flagship mobile chipset to date. Touted as the “world’s fastest mobile system-on-a-chip”, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is the successor to last year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite and brings some significant performance improvements and new features.

Like its predecessor, the newly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has an octa-core architecture that comprises of two prime cores with a maximum frequency of 4.6GHz, accompanied by six performance cores that peak at 3.62GHz. Built on TSMC’s 3nm process, Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is powered by the third-generation Oryon CPU, which it says offers 20 per cent more CPU performance and improves the power efficiency by 35 per cent.

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