Even though the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC has only been official for a little over a month, we heard rumours about its successor last week.
Even more details have been released in China today. Next year, it appears that both the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will be available.
There will be a difference in the GPUs between the two SoCs, with only the Pro version supporting LPDDR6. A 2+3+3 configuration will be used on both, utilising TSMC’s 2nm process and third-generation self-developed CPU cores.
The Pro version will reportedly cost around $70 more than this year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. It will be interesting to see which phone makers choose the 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro next year, and which opt for the non-Pro version to save money.
