A day before the Snapdragon Summit kicks off, a Chinese content creator has uploaded an engineering prototype featuring none other than Qualcomm’s first 2nm SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. In the video, we get to learn a multitude of the chipset’s specifications, not to mention its new and advanced SoC packaging, and, of course, its Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core scores.

Apple’s A20 Pro is still faster than the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in Geekbench 6, though the latter narrowly edges past it in the multi-core result

A few Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 specifications prior to the video leak were already known, such as the new CPU cluster that’s in the “2 + 3 + 3” configuration, where two cores have a frequency of 5.10GHz, followed by three cores operating at 4.00GHz, and lastly, we have 3.74GHz. It’s the first time in years that Qualcomm has made a change to this configuration, likely due to transitioning to TSMC’s improved 2nm “N2P” process and the new packaging that we’ve talked about below.

The higher clock speeds mean that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 will be quite the performer in benchmarks, and sure enough, Bilibili user Nonx_Official uploaded Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core scores. As for whether Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship SoC beats Apple’s A20 Pro in the same test, we have some good news and bad news. The bad news is that the A20 Pro is still the king of single-core results, obtaining 4,725 points and 12,575 in the multi-core result.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6’s engineering prototype achieves 4,327 points in single-core scores and 12,873 in the multi-core category. The commercial version of the A20 Pro ends up being 9.2 percent faster, and given that engineering prototypes always deliver higher benchmark scores because the SoCs running in them operate at a higher power limit, smartphones featuring the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 will likely post even lower single-threaded and multi-threaded results.

While the latest comparison shows that the A20 Pro is Geekbench 6’s fastest smartphone silicon in existence, we’ll wait for additional results to come forth. As for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, you can see in one of the images that the company has implemented a Heat Pass Block similar to the one Samsung added to the Exynos 2600. It’s essentially a heatsink that transfers heat away at a faster rate from the SoC.

The Samsung DRAM is still placed on top of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 instead of being placed on the side like Apple has done with the A20 Pro, so we’ll have to wait and see whether Qualcomm made a mistake in its implementation. To remind you, the Snapdragon Summit kicks off tomorrow, so any elusive details that weren’t present in this video shall be available tomorrow.

News Source: Bilibili

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