Qualcomm doubled the tensor accelerator width and its shared memory. Precision support stopped at INT8 and FP16 with no INT4. Qualcomm published no TOPS figure, and has not published one for any 8-series part in any generation since.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
A wider tensor accelerator for camera and voice AI, with no transformer or generative capability in view.
Silicon from Qualcomm
9 chips on record, newest first.
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2026Relative only
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2026Relative only
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2025
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme
Not stated by Qualcomm Hexagon NPU
The Qualcomm Hexagon NPU features 80 TOPS of AI processing
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2025
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
3nm Hexagon NPU with Fused AI Accelerator
37% faster Hexagon NPU, 16% better performance per watt
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2024Relative only
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2023
Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra
Not stated by Qualcomm PCIe card, 64 AI cores, 576 MB SRAM, 150 W
ML capacity (INT8): 870 TOPs
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2023
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
4nm Hexagon NPU
Up to 98% faster Hexagon NPU; on-device models up to 10B parameters at up to 20 tokens/sec (Llama 2 7B)
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2022Relative only
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2021
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
4nm 7th Gen AI Engine with Hexagon processor
AI Engine up to 4x faster than predecessor
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