Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced the Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform, the world’s fastest mobile system-on-a-chip., alongside Snapdragon® X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon® X2 Elite, the next-generation premium-tier platforms within the Snapdragon X Series portfolio.
In a landmark gathering, India’s foremost technology leaders, OEM partners, and innovators came together, reinforcing Snapdragon’s pivotal role in shaping the future of AI, connectivity, and immersive experiences. Further accelerating the AI revolution in India, these platforms deliver groundbreaking performance, power efficiency, and AI capabilities across mobile and PC devices enabling more personalized AI experiences than ever.
“With the launch of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Snapdragon X2 Elite platforms, we are redefining what’s possible across mobile and PC experiences. These innovations mark a pivotal moment for India’s digital transformation—bringing personalized AI, unmatched performance, and power efficiency to the forefront. As India accelerates toward an intelligent connected future, Snapdragon is proud to lead the way in enabling smarter devices and empowering consumers and businesses alike”, said Savi Soin, Sr. Vice President & President, Qualcomm India
Snapdragon® 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform, the world’s fastest mobile system-on-a-chip
Mobile mainstays amplified
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has upgraded the experiences that users today expect from their mobile devices, including:
- Lightning-fast multitasking and seamless app switching
- Long game play with incredible performance and power efficiency
Agentic AI personalized
The 8-series mobile platform enables truly personalized agentic AI assistants to take user-tailored actions across apps. Through continuous on-device learning and real-time sensing, multimodal AI models understand the user, enabling proactive recommendations and situation-based prompt enhancements—with user data staying on device.
Artistic vision realized
This year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is the world’s first mobile platform to record in Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec, enabling professional-level video production. Supported by groundbreaking AI-powered camera technology, creatives can realize their artistic vision with studio-grade video recording and extensive post-production control.
Snapdragon is your true superpower
With state-of-the-art performance, efficiency and on-device AI processing, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers massive upgrades and experiences that users want today. The 3rd Gen Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU—the fastest in its class—boosts performance by 20%1. A new Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU architecture enhances graphics-rich gaming by 23%1. The Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU offers 37% faster performance1.
The latest premium offering in the Snapdragon 8 Elite series will be featured in flagship devices from global OEMs and smartphone brands, including Honor, iQOO, Nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, POCO, realme, REDMI, RedMagic, ROG, Samsung, Sony, vivo, Xiaomi and ZTE. New devices will be launched in the coming days.
Ultra-premium Performance with the Snapdragon® X2 Elite series
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is built for ultra-premium PCs, tackling agentic AI experiences, computationally intense data analytics, professional media editing and scientific research. Ultimate power users, experienced creators and professional producers can carry out their complex, expert-level workloads on thin and light PCs while plugged in or on the go.
Featuring the best-in-class 3rd Gen Qualcomm Oryon™ CPU, Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme provides the fastest and most power-efficient performance for Windows: up to 75% faster CPU performance than competition at ISO power. A new Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU architecture offers a 2.3X increase in performance per watt and power efficiency over the previous generation. The Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU features 80 TOPS of AI processing—the world’s fastest NPU for laptops—to enable concurrent AI experiences in Copilot+ PCs.
Premium performance for effortless multitasking
Snapdragon X2 Elite drives powerful and efficient multitasking across resource-intensive workloads for productivity, creativity and entertainment in premium PCs. The platform boasts up to 31% faster performance at ISO power and requires up to 43% less power than the previous generation. The 80 TOPS NPU is designed to handle Copilot+ and concurrent AI experiences. Users can harness these features in thin and light designs, even without a charger.
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