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Harish Jonnalagadda

Snapdragon 8 Elite explained: Custom CPU cores, huge GPU upgrades, and so much more

A photo showing a gaming phone with the Snapdragon 8 Elite logo hovering above it.

Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite platform in Hawaii, and a key talking point this year is the manufacturer's return to custom cores. After nearly a decade of semi-custom designs, Qualcomm is once again leveraging a fully custom architecture, and that is immensely exciting. 

As you can imagine, Qualcomm is touting heady gains across the board with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, and with a node shift to 3nm, the chipset may just be one of the best we've gotten in recent years. Here's everything you need to know about the Snapdragon 8 Elite, and how it compares to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and MediaTek's Dimensity 9400. 

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