Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6

Silicon from Qualcomm

9 chips on record, newest first.

1. 2026

   Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6

   2nm Reengineered Hexagon NPU

   35% improved NPU performance

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2. 2026

   Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6

   2nm Hexagon NPU

   14% improved NPU performance

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3. 2025

   Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme

   Not stated by Qualcomm Hexagon NPU

   The Qualcomm Hexagon NPU features 80 TOPS of AI processing

   Absolute
4. 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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5. 2024

   Snapdragon 8 Elite

   3nm Hexagon NPU

   45% faster Hexagon NPU, 45% better performance per watt

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6. 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

   Absolute
7. 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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8. 2022

   Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

   4nm Hexagon NPU

   Up to 4.35x faster AI performance than its predecessor

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9. 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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