Qualcomm was previously rumored to maintain the same CPU cluster on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 as the Snapdragon 8 Elite, but we should prepare ourselves to experience a bucket of upgrades because the upcoming SoC is said to be fabricated on TSMC’s third-generation 3nm process, along with other changes. Now, a new rumor claims that those changes include a bigger cache, along with support for the next-generation memory standard, LPDDR6, and more improvements, so let us get into the details.
Each Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 cluster is said to feature a 16MB cache, with the performance improvements rumored to be 30 percent during the initial testing phase
Where the Snapdragon 8 Elite features 12MB of L2 cache for each cluster, with the total coming to 24MB, Weibo’s Digital Chat Station states that this amount will be raised to 16MB for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. The machine translation can be a bit confusing, but it does not mention if the cache size increase is for L2 or L3. We can assume that the upcoming SoC will now feature 32MB of L2 cache, with the L3 count currently unknown at this time. The initial test results revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 delivered a 30 percent performance increase, but it is unconfirmed if this delta exists between the Snapdragon 8 Elite or some other silicon.
What we do know is that when the first Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2’s alleged AnTuTu results were being talked about, we reported that the SoC obtained a 40.7 percent higher overall score compared to the fastest Snapdragon 8 Elite in the benchmark’s leaderboards. Aside from gravitating to the upgraded manufacturing process, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 possibly exhibits better performance thanks to the use of Qualcomm’s improved ‘Pegasus’ cores, which were apparently tested at a speed of 5.00GHz.
Also, the upcoming chipset will most likely support ARM’s SME, or Scalable Matrix Extension, allowing for up to a 20 percent performance bump in multi-core workloads and potentially beating Apple’s M4 in the process. Of course, how can we forget the support for the newer memory, though the tipster mentions the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 will also be backward compatible with LPDDR5X, suggesting that it will be up to phone makers to decide if they want to ship their devices with faster and more efficient RAM or stick with some cost savings.
At the end of the day, it is important to treat such details with a truckload of salt because nothing has been confirmed right now. We are confident that Digital Chat Station will have some crucial information to share with us in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
News Source: Digital Chat Station
