Snapdragon Elite Gaming
Harness the power of desktop-level gaming with Qualcomm® Snapdragon Elite Gaming™, providing elite gamers with the ultimate hand-held gaming experience. Deliver premium features and enhancements including advanced customization, ultra-realistic graphics and lightning speeds—all on their mobile device.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 is designed for elite gamers everywhere
Dec 1, 2020
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Snapdragon Elite Gaming unlocks a suite of first-to-mobile features that transforms your premium mobile device into a gaming machine. We’ve developed a full arsenal of hardware and software features that are optimized for gaming—all fully integrated into top-tier Snapdragon mobile platforms. Our first-to-mobile PC-like gaming features enable players to game at the next level with smooth interactions, superior performance, blazing-fast response, incredible audio, ultra-realistic graphics with cinematic detail, and much more.
Experience seamless, ultra-smooth gaming enabled by adaptive and predictive real-time system tuning for sustained performance over longer periods of time. Unlock your favorite games with Snapdragon, designed to enable desktop-level frame rates on mobile devices.
High-speed gaming
We’ve teamed up with top game studios to break barriers, pushing fan-favorite mobile games to lightning speeds of up to 144 fps with flawless quality and super-smooth performance.
Game smoother
Reduce the jank, or stutter, for less glitch and more wins. Our Snapdragon mobile platforms bring desktop-level frame rates to mobile for the first time, greatly reducing jank for the smoothest gameplay possible.
Qualcomm Game Quick Touch is optimized at the millisecond level to help decrease latency, increasing the speed from touch to display by up to 20%.
Game Quick Touch
Dec 9, 2020
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Kick your favorite HDR games into high gear with double the speed of complex graphic rendering. Qualcomm® Adreno™ HDR Fast Blend helps HDR games run up to 2x faster by accelerating blending of multiple layers.
True 10-bit HDR game rendering & display
True HDR lets you game in full color with 10-bit color depth and 2020 color gamut. The end result: the ability to dart through smoky battlefields, hide in lush forests, and explore thronged fortresses in over a billion shades of color that are 10x brighter than platforms without True HDR.
Game Color Plus 2.0
Qualcomm® Game Color Plus has the power to turn any standard game into a vibrant visual masterpiece by boosting color, saturation, sharpness and detail to mimic true 10-bit HDR as closely as possible.
Qualcomm Game Color Plus 2.0
Jul 8, 2020
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Adreno HDR Fast Blend
Adreno HDR Fast Blend is designed to boost game scenes with heavy blending, often used in complex particle systems and rendering—delivering up to 2x performance lift for certain operations.
Adreno HDR Fast Blend
Jul 8, 2020
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Bring desktop-level features to the smartphone with lighting and advanced post processing effects that weren’t previously available on Android. Developers can create more realistic and immersive graphics, delivering first-to-mobile gaming features such as updateable GPU graphics drivers.
Updatable GPU drivers
Snapdragon mobile platforms include the first ever updatable GPU drivers on mobile so players can take control of their game by updating graphics drivers and optimizing performance without having to wait for an OS update.
Updatable GPU Driver
Mar 20, 2020
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Desktop forward rendering
Deliver dynamic, desktop-quality visuals to mobile fueled by our ultra-powerful Adreno 650 GPU, designed to elevate every scene with realistic detail.
Desktop Forward Rendering
Jul 7, 2020
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Qualcomm Variable Rate Shading allows the next generation of mobile games to run faster, at higher resolutions and lower power, while still maintaining the highest visual fidelity.
Variable Rate Shading
Dec 9, 2020
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This intelligent engine modifies CPU settings throughout a game for optimized, sustained performance all game long. Adaptive and predictive algorithms run automatically, without costing additional power, reducing jank for consistent gameplay that is ultra-fast and super smooth.
Get immediate gaming gratification on your mobile device by skipping the load-lag and launching games at lightning speed—every time. This elite gaming feature reduces mobile game load times by up to 10% when compared to previous platforms.
Level up without moving a muscle…or sword, axe, or laser beam. This elite gaming feature automatically optimizes network settings and Wi-Fi configurations to make online gaming more efficient and fluid.
Snapdragon Mobile Platforms—when winning is everything.
Our latest flagship 8 series 5G platform transforms your device into a professional-quality camera, intelligent personal assistant, and elite gaming rig—all connected with truly global 5G multi-gigabit speeds for the premium experiences you deserve.
Delivering revved-up performance for insanely fast, superior gameplay. Truly global 5G, ultra-intuitive AI, game-changing Wi-Fi, and a full suite of Qualcomm® Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ features complete this unstoppable platform.
Discover Snapdragon elite gaming devices.
Snapdragon Insiders will get behind-the-scenes access, premium experiences and extra perks that only the Snapdragon Insiders program can deliver. Join our community to get the inside track and help us shape the future of Snapdragon.
Qualcomm Game Studios is a world class group of AAA game developers with 20+ years of experience in the industry. We strive to bring the best gaming experiences to Snapdragon platforms. Our team develops games for mobile, PC and XR, while also providing tools and services for partner game studios.
Catch up on all the latest technical content and hear from thought leaders across the industry on how Snapdragon Elite Gaming is transforming your premium mobile device into the ultimate gaming machine.
Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019: Elite Gaming
Mar 5, 2021
25:34
Snapdragon Tech Summit 2020: Elite Gaming
Mar 5, 2021
15:57
*Compared to platforms without True HDR.
** Quick Charge is designed to increase the battery charge of a device by up to 50% in 15 minutes. Actual results may vary depending on device design
***In games running at 30fps.
Qualcomm Adreno, Qualcomm Kryo, Qualcomm Hexagon, Qualcomm Quick Charge, Qualcomm aptX, and Qualcomm Aqstic are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
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