By adding more cores you mean?
Because you can't just 'scale up' the size of an individual core. That would require designing a new core microarchitecture.
By adding more cores you mean?I’d be curious to the performance of the 8 Elite if it were scaled up to the M4 size.
Marketing departments are so fickle!Android Authority then reached out to Realme, and a company representative said that Qualcomm didn't notify them about the name change before GT 7 Pro's box was designed. The representative adds that the confirmation about the Snapdragon 8 Elite naming was only confirmed "several days before the Snapdragon Summit."
In this context yea, scaling up by adding more resources.By adding more cores you mean?
Because you can't just 'scale up' the size of an individual core. That would require designing a new core microarchitecture.
He mentioned it during the Day 1 Mobile Keynote iirc.In this context yea, scaling up by adding more resources.
Edit: did Amon actually say they have the most area efficient core? Can’t find that.
- Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm.You gotta book your tickets for the Snapdragon Summit next year, because 3rd generation Oryon is going to be awesome.
As long as ARM doesn’t win an injunction to prevent that. Plus who knows what’s up with the whole v9 ALA.A Conversation with Qualcomm CEO at the Snapdragon Summit 2025
Timestamp 5:40
- Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm.
X Elite | 8 Elite |
Adreno 741 | Adreno 830 |
1.5 GHz | 1.1 GHz |
1536 FP32 ALUs | 1536 FP32 ALUs |
6 CU | 12 CU 3 slices |
3 MB GMEM | 12 MB GMEM |
1 MB L2 | |
128 bit LPDDR5X-8448 135 GB/s | 64 bit LPDDR5X-10667 85 GB/s |
6 MB SLC | 8 MB SLC |
2550 points @ 29W Steel Nomad Light | 2600 points @ 11W Steel Nomad Light |
26 mm² N4P | 22 mm² N3E |
The USB4 40Gbps controllers are pretty tiny (<1 mm²).Kurnal has published his labelled dieshot of the X Elite!
With almost all major subsystems labelled.