Qualcomm has announced two new chipsets for smartphones and laptops: first is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, and the second is the new Snapdragon X2 Elite series SoCs for Windows laptops, which further moves upmarket with the debut of ‘Elite Extreme’ branding.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
First up, expect the upcoming Android flagships to see the presence of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 – inside, the new third-generation Qualcomm Oryon CPU is 20% faster than predecessor, the new Adreno GPU gets a 23% improvement in graphics efficiency, while the Hexagon NPU achieves a 37% increase in AI performance. The new chipset also introduces the ability to record in Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec for professional-level video production.
Snapdragon X2 Elite Series
For laptops, the new Snapdragon X2 Elite series SoCs have been expanded into two variants – the standard Elite for premium laptops, and the Elite Extreme for flagship premium laptops aimed at competing against the likes of AMD Ryzen AI Max-based laptops. You’ll find the same third-gen Oryon CPU, though here the flagship X2E-96-100 features the fastest clock speed ever found in an Arm-based CPU, at 5.0GHz (via two-core boost). The same chip also feature a total of 18 cores (12P+6E), with 80 TOPS NPU and at least 48GB of LPDDR5X on-package memory.
In terms of availability, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered smartphones will be announced in the coming days, and we already have one teaser for this. As for the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme, they’ll find their way into next-gen Qualcomm-powered laptops in the first half of 2026.
Pokdepinion: The X2E-96-100 looks potent.
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