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Specs and Features of Galaxy S25’s Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC

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During the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm officially introduced its latest mobile platform. The Snapdragon 8 Elite, which will power Samsung’s Galaxy S25 series and many other Android flagships, comes with epic specs and features.

Qualcomm equipped Snapdragon 8 Elite with advanced artificial intelligence specs and GenAI features. The company’s AI Engine leverages Qualcomm Adreno GPU, Qualcomm Oryon CPU, and Qualcomm Hexagon NPU.

With Oryon CPU debuting in Qualcomm’s mobile roadmap, the company is able to deliver unprecedented performance. This significance deserves a new, special, most premium variant of its leading 8 series—Snapdragon 8 Elite.

Qualcomm’s Oryon CPU brings an extraordinary performance boost to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The company has masterfully engineered 2nd generation Oryon CPU to deliver power, speed, and efficiency, with key features including:

  • Fastest mobile CPU in the world with 4.32 GHz peak CPU speeds.
  • Experience an astounding 45% boost in CPU performance and 44% improved power efficiency.
  • The mobile industry’s largest shared cache delivers insanely fast data retrieval.
  • Delivers up to 27% in overall power savings, extending your gaming time by up to 2.5 hours.

Samsung is set to debut the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the Galaxy S25 series. The flagships will be launched early next year. Integration of this advanced chipset with One UI will further maximize performance and efficiency.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Specs & Features
Category Details
Artificial Intelligence Qualcomm AI Engine
  • Qualcomm Adreno GPU
  • Qualcomm Oryon CPU
  • Qualcomm Hexagon NPU
    • Fused AI accelerator architecture
    • Hexagon scalar, vector, and tensor accelerators
    • Hexagon Direct Link
    • Micro Tile Inferencing
    • Large shared memory concurrency support
    • Upgraded power delivery system
  • Support for mixed precision (INT8+INT16)
  • Support for all precisions (INT4, INT8, INT16, FP16)

Qualcomm Sensing Hub

  • Dual Micro NPUs for audio and sensors
  • Dual Always-Sensing ISPs to support two concurrent Always-Sensing Cameras
  • Support for INT4 precision
5G Modem-RF System Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF System
  • 5G Advanced-ready, 5G mmWave and sub-6 GHz, 5G standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) modes, standalone mmWave and mmWave-sub-6 dual connectivity, FDD, TDD

Downlink: Up to 10 Gbps

Uplink: Up to 3.5 Gbps

8 mmWave carriers, 2×2 MIMO

  • Sub-6 GHz: 4×6 MIMO
  • Converged mmWave-sub-6 transceiver
  • Qualcomm 5G AI Suite Gen 3
    • AI-enhanced performance improvements in power handling, coverage, latency, & QoS
    • AI-assisted mmWave beam management
    • AI-based GNSS Location Gen 3
    • Qualcomm 5G AI Processor Gen 2 with dedicated tensor hardware accelerator
  • Qualcomm 5G PowerSave Gen 5
  • Fully integrated NB-NTN support
  • Qualcomm Smart Transmit Gen 5 technology with Snapdragon Satellite support
  • Qualcomm Wideband Envelope Tracking
  • 5G New Calling support
  • Qualcomm® Power RF Efficiency Suite
  • Qualcomm® 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite
  • Qualcomm® RF Uplink Optimization
  • Global 5G multi-SIM, including Qualcomm DSDA Gen 2

3GPP Release 17 and Release 18 support

6xCA Downlink

6-antenna support (6 Rx for 4×6 MIMO)

Multimode support: 5G NR, NR-DC, EN-DC, LTE, CBRS, WCDMA, LAA, GSM/EDGE, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS)
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & UWB Qualcomm FastConnect 7900 Mobile Connectivity System
  • Wi-Fi Generation: Wi-Fi 7
  • Peak Speed: 5.8 Gbps
  • 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11a/b/g/n
  • Wi-Fi Spectral Bands: 6 Ghz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz
  • Channel Bandwidth: 320/240/160/80/40/20 MHz
  • 4K QAM
  • High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link
  • Wi-Fi Security: WPA3-Enterprise, WPA3-Enhanced Open, WPA3 Easy Connect, WPA3-Personal

Integrated Bluetooth

  • Bluetooth Features: Bluetooth 6.0, LE Audio, dual Bluetooth antennas

Integrated Ultra Wideband (UWB)

  • IEEE 802.15.4z, FiRA, CCC
CPU Qualcomm Oryon CPU
  • 64-bit Architecture
  • Prime core, up to 4.32 GHz
  • Performance cores, up to 3.53 GHz
Camera Qualcomm Spectra ISP Highlights:
  • AI ISP with Triple 18-bit ISPs for real-time photo and video Semantic Segmentation.
  • Engine for Visual Analytics 4.0, providing hardware acceleration for iToF depth sensors up to 4K at 60 FPS.
  • Supports advanced HDR formats (HDR, DCG+VS, DCG, Staggered, QDOL, Less Blanking, Multiframe HDR).
  • Seamless triple HDR video capture with switching between HDR modes.
  • Camera capabilities:
    • Up to 48MP (triple camera) at 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag.
    • Up to 108MP (single camera) at 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag.
    • Supports up to 320MP photo capture.
  • AI-based enhancements: Face detection, autofocus, autoexposure, auto-white balance (AI for 3A).
  • Color and depth support:
    • Photo and video capture with Rec. 2020 color gamut.
    • Up to 10-bit color depth with HEIC photo and HEVC video capture.
  • Ultra HDR support:
    • Google Ultra HDR photo capture.
    • HDR video formats: HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision.
  • Video performance:
    • 8K HDR video playback at 60 FPS.
    • 4K video capture at 120 FPS.
    • Slow-motion at 1080p @ 480 FPS.
    • Bokeh Engine 2 for hardware video capture.
    • Pro Sight video capture for enhanced detail.
    • Ultra-low light video capture with AI Noise Reduction (4K at 60 FPS).
  • Computational HDR with up to 4 exposures (QDOL sensors).
  • Massive Multi-Frame Noise Reduction using AI.
  • AI-enhanced video segmentation (4K at 60 FPS), with real-time AI adjustments for skin and sky tones.
  • Truepic photo capture with C2PA-compliant certificate authority.
Audio Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite:
  • Qualcomm aptX Adaptive and aptX Lossless audio
  • Qualcomm Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN) technology
  • Qualcomm Aqstic audio codec
  • Qualcomm Aqstic smart speaker amplifier: Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise (THD+N) Playback: -108 dB
  • Qualcomm Aqstic Speaker Max
  • Qualcomm Audio and Voice Communication Suite
  • Spatial audio with head-tracking
Display On-Device Display Support:
  • 4K @ 60 Hz
  • QHD+ @ 240 Hz

Maximum External Display Support:

  • Up to 8K @ 30 Hz
  • Up to 1080 @ 240 Hz

Variable Refresh Rate support for 240 Hz to 1 Hz

  • 10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut
  • HDR10, HDR10+, HDR vivid, and Dolby Vision
Visual Subsystem (GPU) Adreno GPU
  • Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing with Global Illumination
  • Support for Unreal Engine 5.3 running Nanite on smartphones
  • Support for Unreal Engine Chaos Physics Engine
  • Snapdragon Adaptive Game Configuration
  • Snapdragon Game Super Resolution
  • Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.1
  • Snapdragon Game Post-Processing Accelerator
  • HDR gaming (10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut)
  • Snapdragon Shadow Denoiser
  • API support: OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL™ 3.0 FP, Vulkan 1.3
  • Hardware-accelerated H.265, VP9, AV1 decoder
  • HDR Playback Codec support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision
Security Truepic with C2PA for video and audio

IP protection for AI models
Location Concurrent GPS, Glonass, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC

Triple frequency GNSS (L1/L2C/L5)

AI-based GNSS Location Gen 3

Sensor-Assisted Positioning 6.0

Urban pedestrian navigation with sidewalk accuracy

Global freeway lane-level vehicle navigation
Charging Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Technology
Memory Support for dual-channel LP-DDR5x memory, up to 5.3GHz

Memory Density: Up to 24 GB
General Specifications Full suite of Snapdragon Elite Gaming features

3nm Process Technology

USB Version 3.1 Gen 2; USB Type-C Support

Storage: UFS 4.0

Part Number: SM8750-AB
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