The new chip is a step up from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 used in many recent flagship Android phones (like the Galaxy S24 series), with a CPU that can reach 4.32 GHz at peak performance. Thats a significant step up from the 3.4 GHz Prime core in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but well have to wait and see if it can sustain those speeds when needed.

Qualcomm 's top-of-the-line mobile chip is getting a new name. But the newly unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite offers more than just surface changes as it's built on a 3-nanometer process, features a new CPU and promises plenty of neural processing to handle new on-device AI features.