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Smartphone manufacturers have solved the problem of their high-end products having poor runtimes by outfitting them with silicon-carbon cells, and from hereon, these companies are taking physical capacities to new heights. According to the latest rumor, one Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 flagship is being tested with a 9,000mAh battery. The largest battery in a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 flagship …

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google’s Pixel 10 has plenty going for it — but top-tier performance remains as elusive as ever. It’s been this way for years, but rather than closing, the gap appears to have grown between the latest Tensor G5 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. With smartphones now defined by AI workloads and gaming prowess, the …

Moving to TSMC and its 3nm ‘N3P’ node for its premium products like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has given Qualcomm the opportunity to compete with titans like Apple, but at a literal cost. Last year, the Snapdragon 8 Elite was the industry’s first 3nm chipset designed for Android flagships, and it was an expensive piece of silicon for phone partners …

The recent announcement of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 was for the version produced under TSMC’s 3nm ‘N3P’ process, but that does not mean Samsung is sitting idly by, as a new report states that a flagship chipset sample made on the 2nm GAA process was recently sent for evaluation. Given that the Korean giant had recently commenced mass production …

The first generation of Apple Silicon chips took other chip makers by surprise. While everyone knew it would be good, the M1 chip was so far ahead of its competitors in both power and efficiency that there must have been a lot of worried faces in Intel and Qualcomm’s respective boardrooms. Three generations later, Qualcomm appears to have finally caught …

It’s important to note that this was all tested on the X2 Elite Extreme configuration, which comes with six additional CPU cores over the standard X2 Elite. There were no X2 Elite systems to test, so we don’t know what those multi-core scores will be. I’ve been told that GPU performance will also scale up on the X2 Elite, but …

The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max appears to be a better gaming device than the iPhone 17 Pro Max. (Image Source: AnRan0420 on Weibo) The Xiaomi 17 Pro Max and Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max are the two most powerful smartphones on the market at the moment. Gaming tests show, however, that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered phone holds consistent …

A myriad of differences exist between the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and its immediate predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite, with one of the most notable being support for faster storage. In case you have not guessed it already, we are referring to UFS 4.1 support, and thanks to this massive change, the Galaxy S26 could receive a performance and efficiency …

Xiaomi 17 Pro Max’s back screen Ben Sin Just a few days after launching a smartphone series named the 15T, Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has already introduced a newer series, the 17 series. The new line consists of three phones: a standard 17, a 17 Pro, and a 17 Pro Max. I’ve been testing the largest one, the Pro Max, …

Update from September 26, 2025:Despite OnePlus’ claims, the OnePlus 15 won’t be the first smartphone featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. That honor will go to the Xiaomi 17 series, which is already available for preorders and it’ll be launched in China on September 27. OnePlus still has the opportunity to be the first brand to launch a Snapdragon …