Qualcomm is expected to unveil two top-end chipsets, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro, this September. Today, some more details about the former have been released by a prolific leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo in China.
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 Orion CPU with two prime cores, three high performance cores, and three performance cores.
Although DCS doesn’t say it outright, the fact that these are new Oryon cores implies that the non-Pro Gen 6 will use 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 feature an 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 gap between the two upcoming chips may be smaller than before, 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)
