Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform

State-of-the-art Performance

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Mobile Platform delivers state-of-the-art experiences fueled by the Qualcomm Oryon CPU, the fastest mobile CPU in the world. Powerful and intuitive AI brings agentic AI assistants, while the next-generation Qualcomm Adreno GPU empowers users to game smarter, not harder. With a mobile-defying professional video toolkit and leading AI-enhanced connectivity, users can unleash their imagination with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

With the world's fastest mobile CPU, every action is smooth and dynamic. From lightning-fast app launches and instantaneous multitasking to fast-paced gameplay and responsive mobile content creation, the 3rd gen Qualcomm Oryon CPU achieves peak performance at up to 4.6GHz speeds. With up to 35% CPU power efficiency and 16% overall SoC power savings, users can enjoy sustained performance for longer.

Unlock hyper-intuitive agentic AI capabilities with the custom-designed, 20% enhanced industry-leading CPU, featuring hardware matrix acceleration that works in tandem with the Qualcomm Hexagon NPU.

Agentic AI That Takes Action

The Hexagon NPU boasts enhanced AI accelerators, better performance, and power efficiency. Combined with the Qualcomm Sensing Hub on-device AI learning features, it brings agentic AI to the device. This allows for more personalized on-device experiences while everyday apps become faster, smarter, and more power efficient.

Agentic AI marks a shift from a reactive assistant to an intelligent collaborator that learns, adapts, and initiates decisions on behalf of the user, powered by the 37% faster Hexagon NPU and upgraded Qualcomm Sensing Hub.

Created with the Qualcomm Sensing Hub, the personal knowledge graph and Qualcomm Personal Scribe power an agentic AI assistant that makes recommendations and acts on behalf of the user based on their routine, preferences, and conversations, while helping to keep information protected.

Whether applying auto filters to photos, using real-time translations while traveling, or making advanced edits to videos, the enhanced Hexagon NPU, delivering 16% better performance per watt, is the AI powerhouse needed to stay ahead.

Your Artistic Vision, Captured Like a Professional

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is an instrument for creatives, providing the power of a film crew. With a full suite of pro-grade video tools and an AI-powered camera, it enables effortless HDR video capture and real-time instant highlights. Best moments are automatically clipped, making it easier to find, edit, and share stunning content with precision and speed.

• The first mobile platform to record in Advanced Professional Video (APV) Codec, capturing incredible quality, high-bitrate footage to enable post-production workflows that push artistic vision to new limits.
• A fully computational video pipeline on Snapdragon smartphones allows every frame to be extracted and utilized, offering the same level of detail and visual quality as a snapshot.
• Context-Aware auto-focus, auto-exposure, and auto-white balance keep subjects sharp, highlights controlled, and colors true in every scene.
• Record professional-quality audio in any environment with Snapdragon Audio Sense delivering industry-leading wind noise rejection, audio zoom, and HDR audio.

Game Smarter, Not Harder

Explore, battle, and play with unmatched performance and power efficiency, thanks to the next-generation Qualcomm Adreno GPU offering a 23% increase in overall performance and a 20% reduction in power consumption. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 features Adreno High Performance Memory (HPM) and support for next-gen gaming features, like Tile Memory Heap and Mesh Shading. Full Unreal Engine 5 support brings console-quality visuals and immersive gameplay to mobile devices for the first time.

• Industry-leading memory cache solution, Adreno HPM, provides 18 MB of dedicated memory for revolutionary efficiency and visual rendering.
• Tile Memory Heap maximizes the impact of Adreno RAM, optimizing memory usage and bandwidth while reducing power draw to maximize play times.
• Support for Mesh Shading allows developers to group geometry more efficiently, enabling smarter GPU-driven rendering for even more power savings and processing headroom.

Limitless Sound

Embrace freedom of whole home and building audio coverage with Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite and Qualcomm Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN) technology, allowing untethered music, calls, and AI assistant interactions via earbuds.

• Tap into Qualcomm XPAN anywhere with exceptional global support at 6 GHz.
• Multitask with convenient multipoint connectivity—no matter where you roam—with Qualcomm XPAN delivering 24-bit, 96kHz lossless music streaming while still being able to receive calls and messages.

Leading AI-Enhanced Mobile Connectivity

Experience cutting-edge, AI-powered mobile connectivity combining the latest in 5G, 5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and UWB technologies. The Qualcomm AI-Powered Data Traffic Engine dynamically identifies and prioritizes data patterns to improve mobile gaming, OTT call quality, and seamless transitioning between Wi-Fi and 5G.

• The Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF sets a new standard in 5G technology, combining Release 17 and 18 capabilities with a 5G AI processor.
• Achieve 30% faster AI inferencing speeds for smarter, more reliable mobile experiences.
• The Qualcomm FastConnect 7900 Mobile Connectivity System with leading Wi-Fi 7 offers up to 40% power savings.
• Up to 50% lower gaming latency with AI-enhanced Wi-Fi.
• Find lost items or gain access control with UWB, Wi-Fi ranging, and Bluetooth Channel Sounding with Proximity AI.

Specifications & Features

Artificial Intelligence

• Qualcomm AI Engine
• Qualcomm Adreno GPU
• Qualcomm Oryon CPU with hardware-based AI acceleration
• Qualcomm Hexagon NPU: Fused AI accelerator architecture, 12 scalar + 8 vector + 1 accelerator configuration, Hexagon Direct Link, Micro Tile Inferencing, Concurrency support, 64-bit memory virtualization, Support for INT2, INT4, INT8, INT16, FP8, FP16 precisions, including mix precision, Support for Gen AI model encryption for extra security
• Qualcomm Sensing Hub: Dual Micro NPUs for audio, voice, and sensors for creating personal knowledge graphs, Dual Always-Sensing ISPs to support two concurrent always-sensing cameras, Qualcomm Personal Scribe, Support for INT4, INT8, INT16 precision
• AI software: Qualcomm AI Stack

5G Modem-RF System

• Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF: 5G Advanced, 5G mmWave, and sub-6 GHz, 5G standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA) modes, standalone mmWave and mmWave-sub-6 dual connectivity, FDD, TDD
• Downlink: Up to 12.5Gbps
• Uplink: Up to 3.7Gbps
• mmWave: 8 carriers, 2x2 MIMO
• Sub-6 GHz: 4x6 MIMO
• Converged mmWave-sub-6 transceiver
• Qualcomm AI-Powered Data Traffic Engine for better end user experience and performance with AI-enhanced dynamic gaming traffic prioritization, AI-enhanced OTT calling for clearer voice and video calls, and smooth Wi-Fi cellular transfer
• AI-assisted mmWave beam management—mmWave (SA) range extension for CPE
• 5G NR-based GNSS Location
• Qualcomm 5G AI Processor with dedicated tensor hardware accelerator
• Qualcomm 5G PowerSave
• Fully integrated NB-NTN support
• Qualcomm Smart Transmit Plus with enhanced uplink support
• 6-antenna (6Rx) support for smartphones
• 6xCA with 400 MHz bandwidth for downlink
• 1024 QAM sub-6 GHz support
• Switched uplink with Rel-17 (FDD/TDD)
• Supplemental uplink (China)
• Uplink 4-layer carrier aggregation (200 MHz)—UL MIMO
• Qualcomm QTM565 mmWave module
• Qualcomm Wideband Envelope Tracking
• 5G New Calling support
• Qualcomm 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite
• Qualcomm RF Uplink Optimization
• Qualcomm RF Downlink Boost
• Global 5G multi-SIM, including Qualcomm Turbo DSDA with 3CC + 1CC carriers support for higher throughput in DL and UL
• 3GPP Release 18 support
• Supports all major global 5G bands, from 0.6 to 41GHz
• Multimode support: 5G NR, NR-DC, EN-DC, LTE, CBRS, WCDMA, LAA, GSM/EDGE, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS)

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth®, & UWB

• Qualcomm FastConnect 7900 Mobile Connectivity System
• Wi-Fi Generation: Wi-Fi 7
• Peak Speed: 5.8Gbps
• 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11a/b/g/n
• Wi-Fi Spectral Bands: 6GHz, 5GHz, 2.4GHz
• Channel Bandwidth: 320/240/160/80/40/20 MHz
• 4K QAM
• AI-enhanced Wi-Fi
• High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link
• Wi-Fi Security: WPA3-Enterprise, WPA3-Enhanced Open, WPA3 Easy Connect, WPA3-Personal
• Integrated Bluetooth: Bluetooth 6.0 wireless technology, LE Audio, Bluetooth Channel Sounding
• Integrated Ultra Wideband (UWB): IEEE 802.15.4z, FiRA, CCC

Audio

• Snapdragon Sound Technology Suite
• Qualcomm aptX Adaptive and aptX Lossless audio
• Qualcomm Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN) technology
• Qualcomm Aqstic audio codec
• Qualcomm Aqstic smart speaker amplifier: Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise (THD+N) Playback: -108dB
• Qualcomm Aqstic Speaker Max
• Qualcomm Audio and Voice Communication Suite
• Spatial audio with head-tracking

Display

• On-Device Display Support: 4K+ @ 120Hz, QHD+ @ 240Hz
• Maximum External Display Support: Up to 4K @ 120Hz, Up to 8K @ 30Hz
• Scaling and Detail Enhancement: 10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut, HDR10, HDR10+, HDR vivid, and Dolby Vision HDR, Display Uniformity Correction, Display Aging Compensation

CPU

• Custom-built Qualcomm Oryon CPU
• 64-bit Architecture
• 2 Prime core, up to 4.6GHz
• 6 Performance cores, up to 3.62GHz

Camera

• Qualcomm Spectra Image Signal Processor
• Triple 20-bit AI-ISPs
• Limitless real-time Semantic Segmentation photo and video processing
• Advanced Professional Video (APV) Codec
• Engine for Visual Analytics (EVA) 5.0 with significant quality improvement in local motion estimation (optical flow)
• Locally Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering
• Support for the latest HDR, LOFIC, DCG+VS, DCG, Staggered, QDOL, Less Blanking, and Multi-Frame HDR image sensors
• Support for triple video capture from HDR image sensors, with seamless switching between any HDR mode
• Up to 48 MP triple camera @ 30FPS with Zero Shutter Lag
• Up to 108 MP single camera @ 30FPS with Zero Shutter Lag
• Up to 320-megapixel photo capture
• Context-Aware 3As (autofocus, autoexposure, and auto-white balance)
• Snapdragon Audio Sense
• Rec. 2020 color gamut photo and video capture
• Up to 10-bit color depth photo and video capture
• 10-bit HEIF: HEIC photo capture, HEVC video capture
• Google Ultra HDR photo capture
• Video capture HDR formats: HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision
• 8K HDR video playback @60FPS
• 4K video capture @120FPS
• Slow-mo video capture at 1080p @ 480FPS
• Hardware Bokeh Engine 2 for video capture
• Pro Sight video capture
• Ultra-low light video capture in 4K60 and AI Noise Reduction in 4K30FPS
• Computational HDR video capture: Up to 4 exposures (with QDOL image sensors)
• Video super resolution
• Massive Multi-Frame Noise Reduction with AI
• AI Video Processing: Enhanced AI video segmentation @ 4K60FPS, Real-time AI skin and sky tone adjustments in 4K60FPS
• Truepic photo capture with C2PA-compliant certificate authority

Visual Subsystem

• Adreno GPU
• Qualcomm Adreno High Performance Memory (HPM)
• Tile Memory Heap
• Unreal Engine 5 Advanced Optimizations
• Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing with Lumen + Global Illumination
• Nanite Virtualized Geometry
• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing
• Temporal Super Resolution
• Snapdragon Adaptive Game Configuration
• Gaming Frame Rate Conversion
• Auto Variable Rate Shading
• Snapdragon Game Super Resolution 2.0
• Adreno Frame Motion Engine 3.0
• Snapdragon Game Post-Processing Accelerator
• HDR gaming (10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut)
• Snapdragon Shadow Denoiser
• API support: OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 3.0 FP, Vulkan 1.3
• Hardware-accelerated H.265, VP9, AV1 decoder
• HDR Playback Codec support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision

Security

• Trust Management Engine (Root of Trust), along with platform-level security foundations
• Qualcomm Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and Qualcomm TEE Services for use cases requiring higher processing assurance
• Qualcomm Type-1 Hypervisor for isolation from the high-level OS
• Secure Processing Unit (SPU) with support for the Android latest Strongbox software components
• Qualcomm wireless edge services (WES) for secure attestation and provisioning
• Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor and Qualcomm 3D Sonic Max (fingerprint sensor)
• C2PA support for media provenance attestation
• Enhanced AI processing isolation and model protection

Location

• Concurrent GPS, Glonass, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, NavIC
• Triple frequency GNSS (L1/L2C/L5)
• AI-based GNSS Location Gen 3
• Sensor-Assisted Positioning 6.0
• Urban pedestrian navigation with sidewalk accuracy
• Global freeway lane-level vehicle navigation

Charging

• Qualcomm Quick Charge 5 Technology

Memory

• Support for LP-DDR5x memory, up to 5300MHz
• Memory Density: Up to 24GB

General Specifications

• Full suite of Snapdragon Elite Gaming features
• 3nm Process Technology
• USB Version 3.1 Gen 2; USB Type-C Support
• Storage: UFS 4.1
• Part Number: SM8850-AC