Qualcomm introduced a new variant of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V- series chipset focused on gaming on its official website.
According to Gizmochina's broadcast on Monday (3/8), the chipset with the model number SM8850-1-AB is confirmed to support the Redmi K100 Pro series which is scheduled to be released in China .
Qualcomm in its product description states that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V- series (SM8850-1-AB) has the same CPU and GPU configuration as the regular 4.6GHz Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
The chip includes two main Oryon cores operating at up to 4.6GHz, six performance cores running at up to 3.62GHz, and an Adreno GPU operating at 1.2GHz.
The new variant chip still uses the Hexagon NPU, Snapdragon X85 5G modem, FastConnect 7900 connectivity system, LPDDR5X memory support, UFS 4.1 storage, and Qualcomm Spectra ISP as in the regular version.
The main difference in hardware between the two variants is the capacity of Adreno High Performance Memory (HPM).
The regular Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has 18MB of HPM memory, while the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V- series only has 12MB.
Beyond those differences, Qualcomm lists the same hardware specifications on both chipsets .
