This generation carried the most concrete on-device generative claim Qualcomm has ever made for: up to 10 billion parameters, up to 20 tokens per second, footnoted against Llama 2 7B. Both following generations dropped the parameter ceiling entirely, which makes 2023 the high-water mark for checkable Qualcomm AI figures.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Qualcomm’s peak disclosure: an explicit parameter ceiling and token rate against a named model. Neither successor repeated it.
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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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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