Qualcomm just pretty much confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will fuel the Samsung Galaxy S26 series phones. That’s not a surprise to anyone, but it’s kind of official now thanks to the company.
Qualcomm pretty much confirmed its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will fuel (some) Galaxy S26 models
What happened? Qualcomm, via its Snapdragon X handle, reshared a post by Samsung Mobile. That post was basically the announcement of the February 25 Galaxy S26 launch event.
While resharing, Qualcomm added: “Something big is coming.” That is an indirect confirmation at best, but everyone is seeing the same thing. We basically knew that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will be used, so this is not groundbreaking news or anything.
In fact, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is expected to be used in all Galaxy S26 Ultra models worldwide. The Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+, on the other hand, are expected to utilize a dual-chip strategy. In some markets, they’ll use Qualcomm’s chip, in others, Samsung’s Exynos 2600 processor.
Both Qualcomm and Samsung have compelling flagship CPUs for this year
As a reminder, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is a 3nm chip, while the Exynos 2600 is a 2nm processor. The former has an octa-core CPU configuration, while the latter offers a deca-core CPU setup.
Both of those are very powerful processors, and the Exynos 2600 actually seems like a notable improvement over the Exynos 2500, which was somewhat disappointing when compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
We’ve recently shared renders and specs of the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+, and Galaxy S26 Ultra. They won’t be all that different from their predecessors design-wise, while the internals will be somewhat similar as well.
The bigger performance-related upgrade will be the aforementioned chips. Samsung is also hyping up the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display feature quite a bit. The camera setups won’t change much, and so on. We’ll find out everything on February 25.
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