Do you see the problem now? No matter the phone’s positioning, it is powered by the same performance-oriented Snapdragon 8 Elite. For instance, the Snapdragon 8 Elite has two Prime cores and six ...

while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is produced by Samsung, leading to significant variations in performance. Many 8 Gen 1 phones have heating issues, which leads to poor sustained performance.

Qualcomm has listed a new 7-core variant of the Snapdragon 8 Elite. This new variant (SM8750-3-AB) is essentially the same as the flagship chipset with one fewer Performance core. Qualcomm ...

The purported Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 and Dimensity 9500 are both said to be produced using TSMC's advanced N3P process ...

In any case, Samsung has probably picked the best option overall, but we’ll have to be prepared to pay the “Snapdragon tax” for this extra performance — the 8 Elite doesn’t come cheap.

While efficiency cores have been omitted completely, there are 2x prime cores clocked at 4.32 GHz and five other performance cores running at up to 3.53 GHz clock speed. The original Snapdragon 8 ...

Qualcomm and MediaTek may launch their flagship chips early and Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 and Dimensity 9500 phones might arrive by late September ...