Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (SM8850-AC) flagship mobile platform at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii, alongside the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips. And towards the end of the product keynote, the chipmaker introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC. While Qualcomm didn't detail the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC, Alex Katouzian, General Manager for Mobile, Compute, and XR at Qualcomm, said, "We developed this chipset to give you more choices and flexibility, while still delivering flagship features."
The Dimensity 9500 features the new Arm G1-Ultra GPU, which MediaTek claims provides up to 33% higher peak performance and 42% improved power efficiency. It has twice the ray tracing units and promises up to 112% faster ray tracing performance. It has support for up to 120fps ray traced gaming with interpolation. There's also support for Vulkan's ray tracing pipeline as well as UnrealEngine 5's MegaLights and Nanite features.