Qualcomm has released specifications for the Snapdragon 8 Elite, its next flagship chip aimed at mobile gaming and computing.
The processor is manufactured using a 3 nm process technology and consists of 8 cores - 2× Oryon Prime with a frequency of up to 4.32 GHz and a shared 12 MiB L2 cache and 6× Oryon Performance with a frequency of up to 3.53 GHz and a shared L2 cache of 12 MiB. The SoC will integrate LPDDR5X-5300 memory, operating at an effective frequency of 4800 MT/s to 5333.5 MT/s.
The video core is represented by the Adreno 830 block, operating at a frequency of 1100 MHz. In 3DMark Steel Nomad Light tests, the accelerator shows performance comparable to the Radeon 780M, and supports the following APIs: OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0, Vulkan 1.3.
The SoC also contains a Hexagon DSP/NPU unit and a dedicated ISP Spectra video processing unit with 4.3 gigapixels per second performance, allowing it to process up to 320 megapixels per frame in photo mode and record video up to 8K at 60 fps with HDR support.
In addition, the chip integrates a 5G modem Qualcomm X80 (10 Gbps DL / 3.5 Gbps UL) and a wireless module Qualcomm FastConnect 7900, which supports Bluetooth 6.0 and Wi-Fi 7 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be) with a data transfer rate of up to 5.8 Gbps.
The SoC supports GPS, GLONASS, NavIC, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS satellite navigation systems and has an integrated USB 3.1 host controller.
Basic support for the chip is already available in the mainline kernel. Linux, and Qualcomm promises bring the matter to an end. The first devices based on the new chip are expected on the Chinese market in late October-November.
Source: linux.org.ru
