Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip will strengthen Amnesty International in the most powerful phones in 2026

At the Qualcomm Snapdragon Snapdragon summit off MAUI, the company revealed Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, a slice of the next generation designated for Android phones next year.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 succeeded last year Snapdragon 8 EliteThat witnessed the first mobile appearance of the CPC in Qualcomm in Qualcomm for more energy and efficiency on the oldest silicon than the arm. As expected, this ELITE GEN 5 this year improves performance on its predecessor. The promotions include faster processing for artificial intelligence agents, which can take data from cameras and microphones to make informed suggestions to the owners of the phone.

“Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5) enables the dedicated artificial intelligence agents to see what you see, hear what you hear and think with you in the actual time.”

Qualcomm announced that Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will appear in the excellent phones of Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Honor, Oppo, VIVO and more brands. Qualcomm said that the first devices will be announced in the coming days.

Compared to the mobile phone slice last year, the Snapdragon 8 Elite 5 CPU has a 20 % better performance and reaches 35 % of energy efficiency, while the graphics processing unit has 23 % performance and reduces energy consumption by 20 %, which means longer gaming sessions while playing on phones.

For artificial intelligence, the neural treatment unit is 37 % faster, and it can deal with artificial intelligence inquiries at 220 symbols per second – it improves 70 symbols of its predecessors per second, or Snapdragon x Elite PC chip’s 30 tokens per second. It collects personal information to enable artificial intelligence agents – the next generation of artificial intelligence assistants – to make appropriate recommendations and suggestions for your behavior and tastes.

The phones that come out with Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will be the first mobile devices to use a new video coding program, an advanced professional video clip, which allows capture semi -quality shots without a loss in addition to more granular controls in the post -production to obtain the fine color classification. The chip has a fully account pipeline, which means that phones can extract one tires from the same visual quality videos as fixed images.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Modem X85 of Qualcomm is used as well as the company’s FastConnect 7900 communication chip, with Wi-Fi 7 and AI that leads to a savings of up to 40 % of energy saving in addition to improving Wi-Fi for 50 % less toys.

At the end of the keyword for Snapdragon Summit, the Director General of the Qualcomm Alex Katouzian Group, Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 It was released last year.

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