The Snapdragon 8 Elite is Qualcomm's coming-out party for custom Oryon silicon in smartphones and its sophomore effort with a major AI focus. But something that I think "normal" phone buyers will care about, even more than benchmarks and GenAI tricks, is whether the Elite's 44% efficiency boost will actually make their phone batteries last longer.
It's a fair question because the Snapdragon 8 Elite is the first flagship chip we know of that completely abandons traditional efficiency cores.
