Not long ago the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was launched, the Qualcomm’s new flagship processor and although the first phones with this chipset are just arriving (Xiaomi 17, OnePlus 15, HONOR Magic8, etc.), we already have news of what its successor will be next year.
And in an unexpected twist, it looks like they’ll be breaking with tradition and will no longer launch one high-end processor, but two. That’s right, it has been leaked that Qualcomm is planning to launch two versions of the future Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, which will surely further complicate the already confusing naming of these chipsets.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 will be available in versions: the basic or “Standard” one and the more powerful or “Pro” one
The famous Chinese leaker Digital chat station revealed on its Weibo account that Qualcomm will change the rules of the game with its next generation high-end. And the future Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 will come in two versions: one standard and one Pro.
Both will be designed with the manufacturing process of 2 nanometers of TSCM and they will use the same CPU architecture with Qualcomm’s custom third-generation cores arranged in 2+3+3 clusters.
Now, the leaker mentions it The Pro version will have more powerful graphics and will be compatible with LPDDR6the new generation of RAM. The release is expected “Standard” (it is not confirmed that it will be called that, it is probably just Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6) does not have these improvements in GPU and memory.
In this way, it seems that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will be the real successor of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and what we will most likely see in the best models of the next generation of flagships, while the “Standard” It will be given to the mid-to-high range or sub-flagships.
And you… Do you think Qualcomm’s strategy of launching two versions of its flagship processor makes sense?
