Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Mobile Platform
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Mobile Platform
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The Snapdragon® 8 Gen 5 Mobile Platform is premium to the core.

The Snapdragon 8 is the epitome of premium performance, bringing flagship mobile technology to a wider array of devices. Now outstanding performance is yours to command with our custom-built Qualcomm® Oryon™ CPU, newly architected Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU, and industry-leading Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU, delivering ultra-fast flagship experiences at incredible efficiency.

These performance advancements take Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ features to the next level, with both the Snapdragon Adaptive Performance Engine 4.0 and Qualcomm® FPS 3...

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Benefits

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Outstanding performance

Our custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU supercharges experiences with 36% improved performance delivering up to 3.8GHz peak speeds. The new Adreno GPU architecture packs dedicated memory per slice and 11% faster graphics rendering. High-bandwidth DDR up to 4.8 GHz significantly boosts overall performance, while an improved 3nm process node drives greater power efficiency, delivering an impressive 13% overall power savings.

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Flagship photo and video

Our AI ISP is packed with intelligent features like real-time tone control—now upgraded to recognize vegetation. Context-aware autofocus, auto-white balance, and auto-exposure make every snap a success, while videography gets a boost from Night Vision 3.0 capturing at a silky-smooth 60 FPS in near darkness. Plus, Snapdragon Audio Sense records HDR audio while eliminating background wind noise—no external microphone necessary.

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Remarkable intelligence

The revamped Hexagon NPU delivers 46% faster performance. This powerful NPU works in tandem with the enhanced Qualcomm Sensing Hub to enable agentic AI experiences that learn and adapt to your preferences over time, providing highly personalized recommendations and interactions across apps. You'll enjoy more natural communication through multimodal voice assistance and AI activation, which can now be triggered simply by lifting your phone, allowing you to interact on your own terms.

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Expert-level gaming

Game Ready drivers and our smart game tuning solutions optimize performance, while innovations like Mesh Shading and Auto Variable Rate Shading (VRS) empower developers to create console-quality experiences for mobile. Multiplayer gaming gets even more seamless thanks to support for 6-antenna connectivity and our custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU, providing consistently high frame rates. 

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Robust 5G and Wi-Fi 7

The Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF System offers 5G-Advanced readiness with 6Rx antenna support for boosting performance and range, plus peak uplink speeds up to 3.5 Gbps. The FastConnect 7900 Mobile Connectivity System is a highly integrated 6nm system delivering Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth® 6.0 wireless technology, and Ultra Wideband (UWB) along with AI-powered proximity solutions to find lost items using UWB, Bluetooth Channel Sounding, and Wi-Fi Ranging.

All comparisons made to previous generation. 

Features

  • Our Qualcomm AI Engine includes:
    • Hexagon NPU with 46% faster performance 
    • Qualcomm Oryon CPU with first ever hardware matrix acceleration
  • Qualcomm® Sensing Hub
    • Multimodal AI activation enables your AI assistant to respond to movement like lifting your phone to speak, no wake word required
  • Qualcomm Oryon CPU is custom-built delivering CPU speeds up to 3.8GHz
  • Qualcomm Oryon CPU features 36% improved CPU performance and 42% better power efficiency
  • Adreno GPU delivers 11% improved performance and 28% better power efficiency 
  • Up to 13% overall SoC power savings
  • Our Qualcomm Spectra AI ISP features:
    • Triple 20-bit ISPs with context-aware autofocus, auto-white balance, and auto-exposure
    • Night Vision 3.0 for silky-smooth low-light video
    • Snapdragon Audio Sense records HDR audio while eliminating background wind noise—no external microphone necessary
  • Real-time tone control dynamically adjusts skin, sky, and even vegetation
  • Snapdragon Elite Gaming Features:
    • Mesh Shading support allows developers to group geometry more efficiently, enabling smarter GPU-driven rendering and power savings 
    • Auto Variable Rate Shading (VRS) intelligently optimizes GPU resources to boost performance and save power
    • Qualcomm FPS 3.0 stabilization, optimization game scheduler, and power tuning provide enhanced power savings
  • Features our advanced Snapdragon X80 5G Modem-RF System
    • Blazing download speeds up to 10Gbps and uplink speeds up to 3.5Gbps
    • DSDA with dual-data support globally
  • FastConnect 7900 providing 40% improved power savings from previous generation 
    • Up to 50% lower gaming latency with AI-enhanced Wi-Fi
Specifications
Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine
GPU Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™
CPU Name
Qualcomm® Oryon™
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Features
Dedicated power delivery system, Fused AI Accelerator architecture, Hexagon Direct Link, Micro Tile Inferencing, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Scalar Accelerator, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX)
Qualcomm® Sensing Hub Features
Dual always-sensing cameras, Dual-core AI processor
CPU
Name
Qualcomm® Oryon™
Architecture
64-bit
Clock Speed
3.8 GHz
GPU
Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™
APIs
OpenCL™ 3.0 FP, OpenGL® ES 3.2, Vulkan® 1.3
Cellular Modem-RF
Modem Name
Snapdragon® X80 5G Modem-RF System
Peak Download Speed
10 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed
3.5 Gbps
Cellular Modem-RF Specs
8 carriers (mmWave), 2x2 MIMO (mmWave), 4x6 MIMO (Sub-6)
Performance Enhancement Technologies
Qualcomm® Wideband Envelope Tracking, Qualcomm® 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite, Qualcomm® 5G AI Processor Gen 2 with dedicated tensor accelerator, Qualcomm® Power RF Efficiency Suite, Qualcomm® 5G AI Suite Gen 3, Qualcomm® RF Uplink Optimization, Qualcomm® Smart Transmit™ Gen 5 technology, Qualcomm® 5G PowerSave Gen 5
Cellular Technology
5G NR, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), LTE, WCDMA, LAA, GSM/EDGE, EN-DC, CBRS, NR DC
Multi SIM
Global 5G Multi-SIM, Dual SIM support Qualcomm® DSDA Gen 2 (Dual Data)
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System
Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7900
Peak Speed
5.8 Gbps
Generation
Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7
Standards
802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11a, 802.11ax, 802.11be
Spectral Bands
6 GHz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz
Channels
320 MHz
Peak QAM
4K QAM
Features
TDLS, OFDMA (UL/DL), Wi-Fi QoS Management, Wi-Fi Aware R3, Wi-Fi Location, Miracast, Voice-Enterprise, High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link, Qualcomm® XPAN technology
Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Our leading-edge AI, high performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity deliver proven solutions that transform major industries. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.

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