Snapdragon 8 is now ELITE! Name change, benchmarks, and more!

Qualcomm just announced the sequel to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and it’s not the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. Instead, it’s the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This matches the branding for its laptop chips, but it does continue to make its branding pretty confusing. There’s a lot to talk about with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite, though, such as new core design, benchmarks, and what phones you can expect it on!

00:00 - Yet another Qualcomm rebrand!
00:23 - Why use Snapdragon 8 Elite as a name?
01:10 - Why need a name change at all?
02:05 - First-party CPU benchmarks
03:27 - First-party GPU benchmarks
05:02 - Which phones are getting this chipset?

#qualcomm #snapdragon8elite #snapdragon #mobile #tech

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[streakydanco]

I'm guessing Snapdragon will release a Snapdragon 8 plus series of chips for midrange phones.

[Gemini]

Honestly, 90% of users don't even know what chipset powers their phones 😂

[Garrettdx]

I hate the branding. Now what are they going to call next year's chip? Just stick with a naming scheme.

[opposedscroll]

The battle between Qualcomm and Mediatek will be exciting next year

[mohimrahman]

But be careful, without a proper cooling and dissipating solution, this can be a disaster on some devices....
Consistency is better than throttling...

[gokulakannan]

We know every time the name change sd800 and 8 gen 1 🌚💀

[mikeachoy]

So does the ELITE branding mean elite in all aspects? (thermal performance, battery etc). There seems to almost always be a downside to more raw power just for benchmark's sake

[siyakhanzimande]

I like the power it has, but I hate that android doesn’t have developer support when it comes to console gaming like the iPhone.

[DecAllTimeAlways]

*Razr+* *2025* */* *Snapdragon* *8* *Elite*
I’m worried if I drop my Razr 5G again on concrete like I did the other day on a parking lot, I may lose it for good. Was very lucky the drop didn’t damage any of the screens only leaving a ding at the top left. The Razr+ is an obvious replacement if my Razr 5G ever breaks.

I’ve been reading great stuff about the Snapdragon Gen 8 Elite. It might be the most hyped up flagship SoC ever by Qualcomm. It’s on the 3nm process and breaks the 4 GHz barrier. I saw improvements of up to 30%-45% when we normally see 15%-20% gains yearly. This seems more hyped up than the Snapdragon 800 in 2013 and 835 in 2017. Both were fantastic SoCs, btw. The 801 in 2014 was one of three variants of the 800.

Samsung may go Exynos next year with their foldables while the S25 series will get first dibs with the Gen 8 Elite (formerly 8 Gen 4) with Qualcomm’s new Oryon CPU. I’m thinking Samsung will use their own Exynos because Qualcomm charges a lot when OEMs uses their flagship SoCs. This is why Pixels don’t go up in price like the Flip 6 did using 8 Gen 3. Is the 8 Elite so good that Qualcomm changed the name to Elite after being referred as Gen 4 prior? The cost of using the 8 Elite? $190, a 20% increase from the 8 Gen 3.

Motorola recently announced 5 year OS updates for their Edge 50 Neo with a Dimensity 7300, a chip inferior to the Snapdragon 8S Gen 3. The latest Razr+ 2024 is probably still only on the 3 year OS update plan. So I suggest to wait for the Razr+ 2025 to get the 5 years and the newer 8 Elite chip if Motorola plans to use it. Motorola has never used a current flagship for any of their Razrs except the 2022 which stayed in China. The Razr 2019 has the 710. Razr 5G has the 765G. The Razr+ 2023 has the 8+ Gen 1 which was a 2022 flagship SoC that the Flip 4 used 9 months earlier.

The Razr+ 2024 uses the 8S Gen 3 which is underclocked compared to the 8 Gen 3 and barely an improvement over the efficient Gen 2 found on the S23 Ultra from last year. Actually, the 8 Gen 2 has higher teraflops than the 8S Gen 3 and can download and upload faster on data speeds. And Gen 2 has higher clock speeds on their GPU. Will Motorola finally not cheap out and use the Snapdragon 8 Elite for their Razr+ 2025 or will they still use the 8 (no S) Gen 3 from this year? Samsung usually has first dibs on Qualcomm chips. And if Moto does use this 8 Elite, will the price go up like what happened to the Flip 6?


Finally a significant leap in performance that we haven’t seen since going from 820/821 to 835 or the 600 that the HTC One M7 and Galaxy S4 have to the 800 that the LG G2 and Nexus 5 have and all released in the same year of 2013. Add the possible 5 year OS updates and you can use a Razr+ 2025 for 12 years if you wanted to. That’s 5 years of OS updates + 7 years when an app might start losing support if stuck on an older OS. I can still use my Uber Driver app but minimum now is 8.1. Eventually, a phone still on Oreo from 2017 will lose app support.

Don’t get the Razr+ 2024 and wait it out. Snapdragon 8 Elite is worth waiting for plus the longer OS updates of an extra 2-3 years.

[CaveyMoth]

It's nice that it's faster than the previous generation. But what about power consumption and thermal output? Are the tests all measured at the same power load?

[nickthaskater]

This makes sense so long as it's the final "8" chip, otherwise it should have been the 8 Gen 3 Elite.

[matrix]

I can expect to see this being used on the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

[rifqialfariz]

I pray that they don't mess things up just like the previous snapdragon chips that has new names in them. It was traumatic experiences with SD 810, 888, 8gen1. Smartphones that uses these chips are known for producing crazy overheating issue. My phone desperately need an upgrade and I'm planning to buy OnePlus 13 as soon as it hit the market.

[hikalox]

How much content is there that makes use of this high-spec SoC?

[RiqMoran]

everybody is severely underselling this. for the past 10yrs, android phones have lagged behind iPhone around 40-50% in single core benchmarks and this is now within 7%. This is android's M1 moment.

[binoymathew]

Qualcomm doing an "apples to apples" comparison. 🤔 Definitely. Makes sense now. 😉👌

[arxabhinav]

One Day They will announce name like "SNAPDRAGON EXTREME END"
when you reach at its peak level no matter what development you will do .. its works same as earlier ! It's because of that peak singularity !

[dgxxtreme]

SAMSUNG S25 WILL HAVE THIS FOR SURE!!!
💯🔥📱👑
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[p_mcg]

Crazy how far we have come. The Tensor G2 in my 7a is more than enough for my use case though. Waiting for G4 with custom design from Google

[peejae]

This got me excited for the next XR processor for VR headsets with Oryon based CPUs.