Overview

• Announced at the Snapdragon Summit in Goa, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for mobile and the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme/X2 Elite for PCs move Qualcomm’s flagship lines to third‑generation Oryon cores.
• For phones and tablets, Qualcomm cites a 20% CPU uplift, a 23% Adreno GPU gain, and a 37% faster Hexagon NPU enabling agentic assistants and Advanced Professional Video recording.
• For ARM Windows PCs, the X2 Elite Extreme offers up to 24 CPU cores with dual‑core boost to 5GHz and claims up to 75% faster CPU performance at ISO power versus competitors, while X2 Elite targets up to 31% faster performance at ISO power and up to 43% less power than its predecessor.
• Both X2 platforms are built on TSMC’s 3nm process and integrate an 80 TOPS NPU that Qualcomm bills as the fastest in laptops, supporting Copilot+ and other on‑device AI workloads.
• Devices are slated to arrive with phones as early as November 2025 and X2 Elite laptops in the first half of 2026, with confirmed early phone adopters including iQOO 15, OnePlus 15, Realme GT 8 Pro, and Xiaomi 17 series, and SamMobile reporting Samsung could use X2 chips in future Galaxy Book Edge models.