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- **Posted:** 2025-09-25T16:01:34.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PCMag (@pcmag) — https://gondola.cc/pcmag

## Caption

It’s that time of year again when the smartphone arms race heats up. 🔥📈

Apple, Google, and MediaTek have all introduced powerful new phone chips, and now it's Qualcomm's turn with its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform.

Qualcomm's next-gen chip is designed to power many Android phone makers' flagship phones in 2025 and beyond. Brands that have signed up to use it include Asus, Honor, iQOO, Nubia, OnePlus, Oppo, Poco, Realme, Redmi, RedMagic, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Xiaomi, and ZTE. Not all of these phones will be sold in the United States, but the chip is likely to be in the OnePlus 15, Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series, and the Galaxy Z Fold 8.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 features the fastest mobile CPU ever, according to Qualcomm’s testing of its third-gen Oryon tech. It’s 20% faster than the chip launched in 2024, and the CPU is 35% more power efficient. The whole Gen 5 SoC is 16% more power efficient. Still on the 3nm process, the Gen 5 features two 4.6GHz prime cores and six 3.62GHz performance cores, all running on a 64-bit architecture.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is likely to arrive on smartphones throughout 2026, but we may see some devices with the chip debut in late 2025. It’ll be competing with the newly announced MediaTek 9500 to power those top-end Android phones, but most manufacturers who sell phones in the US lean toward Qualcomm’s tech.

Read more at our link in bio. 

📸: Qualcomm

#Snapdragon8EliteGen5 #Qualcomm #AndroidPhones #TechNews #MobileChips

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snapdragon8elitegen5, technews, androidphones, mobilechips, qualcomm

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