{"id":858327,"date":"2026-08-14T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858327\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:56:12","slug":"snapdragon-8-elite-gen-6-pro-emerges-in-antutu-test-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858327\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro emerges in AnTuTu test run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm is expected to unveil its next-generation flagship chipset \u2013 the Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro at the annual Snapdragon Summit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/qualcomm_snapdragon_summit_2026_date-news-73500.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next month<\/a>, and it just leaked in an AnTuTu 11 benchmark run.<\/p>\n<p>The SM8975, as it is known internally, managed an impressive 4.83 million points. For reference, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 usually hits between 4 and 4.6 million points. This means the upcoming chip offers a mere 5% boost in AnTuTu. Though, as usual with leaked benchmark runs, this is likely unfinished hardware, so the scores should be taken with a few grains of salt. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"500\" height=\"941\" alt=\"Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro AnTuTu 11 test run\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786748171_913_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nSnapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro AnTuTu 11 test run<\/p>\n<p>The Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro is expected to be joined by a non-Pro version. Both chips are rumored to be fabbed on a 2nm process, but it remains to be seen if that will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/tsmcs_2nm_chips_will_be_significantly_more_expensive_than_previous_generations-news-70951.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TSMC\u2019s<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/qualcomms_snapdragon_8_elite_gen_6_might_be_made_by_samsung-news-72482.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung\u2019s<\/a>. Based on earlier rumors, both SD 8 Gen 6 series chips will feature next-gen Oryon CPU cores in a 2+3+3 configuration. The non-Pro is allegedly getting an Adreno 845 GPU with 12MB of on-chip graphics memory, while the Pro should get the more capable Adreno 850 with 18MB of graphics memory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"749\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786748172_877_gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro emerges in AnTuTu test run \"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro is expected to be at the helm of upcoming devices like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/report_the_xiaomi_18_series_will_be_the_first_to_launch_with_the_new_snapdragon_8_elite_gen_6-news-73566.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xiaomi 18 Pro and Pro Max<\/a>, which should arrive sometime in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qualcomm is expected to unveil its next-generation flagship chipset \u2013 the Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-858327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}