We already saw Xiaomi’s new chipset post some impressive results, but it’s held back by some older tech – it’s a 3nm chip (TSMC N3P) and uses Arm C1 cores. The upcoming chips from Qualcomm and MediaTek promise to be even better, though neither company has revealed official details yet. So instead, leakster Digital Chat Station offers a preview.
The “Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6”, which we assume means the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro (SM8975), will be fabbed on TSMC’s new 2nm node (N2P). The CPU will crack the 5GHz barrier with its two Prime cores clocked at 5.01GHz. The 8-core CPU will be organized as such: 2x 5.01GHz + 3x 4.03GHz + 3x 3.74GHz. For comparison, the 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU cores are clocked as follows: 2x 4.61GHz + 6x 3.63GHz.
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9600 Pro will also be made on the N2P node. However, it will use Arm-designed cores. DCS lists them as 2x 4.55GHz Canyon + 3x 4.35GHz Gelas-b + 3x 3.10GHz Gelas.
Now, these aren’t official yet, but we think that “Canyon” is the code name for the Arm C2-Ultra, “Gelas-b” should be the C2-Premium, while “Gelas” should be the older C1-Pro.
Moving on to GPUs, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will use the Adreno 850. This should be a 3-slice GPU with 18MB of graphics memory. Additionally, the chipset will have 8MB of Last Level Cache (LLC).
As you may have heard, Qualcomm will release two Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chipsets – the above is for the top-of-the-line Pro model. The non-Pro model (SM8950) will have a similar 2+3+3 CPU (clock speed details are unclear) and an Adreno 845 GPU. Like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V-series chip, this will be a two-thirds GPU with 2 slices and 12MB of graphics memory. The LLC will be reduced to 6MB.
Xiaomi Xring O3
The Dimensity 9600 Pro will use the Arm G2-Ultra NX MC12 GPU – this is the same GPU that we saw on the Xiaomi Xring O3 chip. It’s a 16-core GPU split into two clusters – 8 traditional GPU cores and 8 with NX tensor acceleration (for use with image upscaling, frame gen and so on in gaming).