Qualcomm is expected to unveil two top of the line chipsets this September, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro. Today, some more details about the former have been outed in China by the prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo.
According to him, the non-Pro Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (model number SM8950) will be built on a new TSMC 2nm process, and will feature a new Oryon CPU with two Prime cores, three High Performance cores, and three Performance cores.
While DCS doesn’t outright say it, the fact that these are new Oryon cores strongly implies the non-Pro Gen 6 will be using the same cores as the Pro Gen 6. Anyway, in the vanilla SoC, the CPU cores will share 16MB of L2 cache. The SoC will have the Adreno 845 GPU with 6 ‘slices’, 12MB of dedicated graphics cache, and 6MB of system-level cache.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 will support LPDDR5X memory and UFS 5.0 storage. Compared to the Pro version, it has reduced “some cache and peripheral specifications” (machine translated from Chinese). This means the differences between the two upcoming chips might be smaller than previously anticipated, with the Elite Gen 6 also being a very good high-end offering. It will power upper-midrange / lower high-end devices from Chinese manufacturers.
Source (in Chinese)
