Snapdragon 8 Elite: Qualcomm Oryon architecture comes to Smartphones with up to 50% more performance

Qualcomm’s Oryon core architecture represented an important shift in the company’s strategy, leaving ARM’s Cortex designs aside to make the leap to its own design inherited from the Nuvia acquisition. We saw them for the first time in the Snapdragon

Finally it’s official: The new Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first smartphone SoC with Qualcomm Oryon architecture. And it does so with the second generation, improving what we already saw in the Snapdargon X.

Although one of the names that were rumored for this chip was Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, the company has decided to bring the name “Elite” also to its catalog for smartphones, in this way the change in architecture along with the nomenclature is clear. .

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is a processor made up of 8 Oryon architecture cores distributed in two groups: On the one hand, we have two “Prime” cores with a maximum speed of 4.32 GHz for tasks that require more performance in 1 or 2 threads. On the other hand, six “Performance” cores are responsible for offering multi-core performance with less consumption at a maximum speed of 3.53 GHz.

It is manufactured at 3 nanometers at TSMC with its N3E process.

This distribution breaks with what we had in the previous Snapdragon 8, since they used to have three types of cores at different speeds, with a “Prime Core”, followed by P-Cores and E-Cores.

As for the cache, in total the Snapdragon 8 Elite has 24 MB of L2 cache, which is divided into 12 MB for the two Prime Cores and another 12 MB for the rest of the cores. In addition, the supported LPDDR5x RAM reaches 5.3 GHz.

Qualcomm promises up to 50% more performance with 44% better efficiency than previous generations. A specific case is that of the Unreal Engine where it is possible to take advantage of the 8 cores in an optimized way to achieve a 40% increase in CPU performance.

The graphics part is handled by the new generation of the Adreno GPU, now 40% faster, with a 40% reduction in consumption and 35% more power in Raytracing.

This GPU is divided into three parts or “Slices” running at 1.1 GHz and sharing 12 MB of graphics memory.

Artificial Intelligence could not be left aside either. Whether we like it more or less, the truth is that all processor manufacturers are betting big on this technology, and Qualcomm already has experience in the sector for many years.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite has been created with AI in mind. The CPU has improved integer and FP computing performance, with low latency for inference tasks, and the GPU has been optimized for specific tasks. The Hexagon NPU has also been improved for higher performance.

In the end, the entire set achieves up to 45% more performance in AI with the same percentage in performance per Watt for this type of tasks.

The entire Snapdragon 8 Elite divides up the different AI tasks depending on which part offers the best performance and efficiency.

The part in charge of managing sensors in the second dish, the Qualcomm Sensing Hub, has also been improved with 60% more performance in Artificial Intelligence and access to 34% more memory.

At the photographic level, Qualcomm’s Spectra ISP is capable of managing several high-resolution sensors with integrated AI capabilities.

In terms of connectivity, we cannot leave aside the support for WiFi 7 thanks to the Qualcomm FastConnect 7900, or the most advanced 5G connection with the Snapdragon x80 modem. In this regard, an antenna management system using AI has also been integrated, and up to carrier aggregation 6x is supported.

We will see the Snapdragon 8 Elite in a large number of high-end smartphones from now on. The first to arrive with this SoC will be the new ASUS Rog Phone.

Some performance data of the Snapdragon 8 Elite

We will add more data as we further test the test terminals throughout this week.

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