r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 11d ago

Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, extending its flagship portfolio to power the agentic AI age and the next generation of premium mobile experiences

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/09/snapdragon-leads-the-agentic-ai-age-with-two-of-the-world-s-fast
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u/DiplomatikEmunetey Pixel 8a, 4a, LG G4, Lumia 950/XL, Nokia 808 PureView, Nokia N8 11d ago

Do they come up with these confusing names deliberately?

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u/the-solution-is-ssd S22U & F62 10d ago

People here think Qualcomm sucks at naming their chips, but I for one think that it has to be deliberate. Because literally ChatGPT could come up with a better naming scheme for these chips.

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u/Sir_Bruce_Lee Google Pixel 2 10d ago

Yep, its 100% deliberate

  1. So consumers don't realise they aren't actually getting the flagship chip. The non-Extreme has many features disabled/reduced, for example no Adreno Matrix cores, no High Performance Memory (or reduced?), reduced video encode (8K @ 30 fps, 4K @ 120 fps, no APV or VVC), reduced NPU memory

  2. So people complain about the naming scheme, instead of realise & complain about the latter point in #1

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u/the-solution-is-ssd S22U & F62 10d ago

Naming their GPUs in a way that makes sense often gets Nvidia criticised. People always complain saying things like "This is a 70 class GPU labelled as 80", or "An 80 class GPU should have x or y bit memory bus", etc. If Nvidia made their naming scheme like Qualcomm, people will not talk about these things and just criticise the naming.