The Snapdragon 8 Elite is using the in-house Oryon CPU cores—now on mobile after debuting with the Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus —alongside the next step in its Adreno 830 GPU for battery ray tracing on a TSMC 3nm processor.

Qualcomm has unveiled its latest and greatest smartphone chipset for a new generation of phones, in the form of the Snapdragon 8 Elite.

Qualcomm has touted some pretty eye-opening benchmarks for its new silicon, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite posting numbers of the Geekbench test of general performance that top Intel’s new Lunar Lake chips — impressive since the latter is built for laptops while the Snapdragon 8 Elite powers phones.