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It is rumoured that TSMC’s N3P process was the only method used in the development of Qualcomm’s alleged Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 chipset.
At its annual Snapdragon Summit event in Hawaii last month, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that boasts a number of improvements, such as second-generation custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU cores and on-device generative artificial intelligence (AI). Despite recently reported changes in its development plans, a tipster has now asserted that its successor, the alleged Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 SoC, may offer an even greater jump in single-core and multi-core performance.
Performance Benchmarks for the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 Chipset (Anticipated)
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), tipster @Jukanlosreve suggested that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will offer a 20 percent jump in single-core and multi-core performance, citing sources in South Korea. This year, Qualcomm already delivered a 30 percent uplift in CPU performance with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, when compared with last year’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip.
According to the tipster, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 SoC’s single-core score on Geekbench 6 will be approximately 4,000 points, while Qualcomm’s current flagship mobile chipset is said to have a single-core score of 3,200.
However, the performance boost is not limited to the purported Snapdragon chipset. The tipster claims that the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 will also provide a similar score on the benchmarking platform.
In addition to TSMC’s N3P process, it was proposed that the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 would make use of Samsung Foundry’s SF2 2nm-class manufacturing. However, the tipster, in a subsequent post, claimed that it isn’t likely to be the case anymore and the plans have been cancelled. Therefore, it is anticipated that TSMC’s manufacturing expertise will be the only source used to produce Qualcomm’s alleged chipset.
The newly released Snapdragon 8 Elite chip has a second-generation, custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU with eight cores and a peak clock speed of 4.32 GHz. It is constructed using a 3 nm fabrication process. Its Qualcomm Adreno GPU and upgraded Hexagon NPU, which are components of the Qualcomm AI Engine, enable it to outperform the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC by 40% in gaming and by 35% in ray-tracing.