Will the Galaxy S27 Ultra finally pack a different chipset than the vanilla Galaxy S27?

The Pro way of the Snapdragon

According to popular and reliable tipster Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the upcoming high-end chipset series by Qualcomm will consist of two variants:

• Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro
• Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6

Both will be built on TSMC’s “new-generation 2nm process”, which means they should be not only powerful but highly efficient, too.

In details

The non-Pro variant will move to a 2+3+3 CPU architecture, which we already told you about some days ago. This particular silicon might come with 16MB of shared L2 cache, Adreno 845 GPU, 12 MB of graphics memory and 6MB of SLC.
Like its Pro counterpart, it should support LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 5.0, although the way prices of RAM and storage have been skyrocketing, that’s more of a threat than a promise.

Overall, the non-Pro variant might come with some “reduced cache and peripheral specifications” and it could be used in the “mid-range/pro-range” phones.

Why the split?

Silicon fork ahead! | Image by Qualcomm

It seems that Qualcomm will follow through with this dual-tier flagship lineup. And Samsung might embrace it for its flagship lineup as well.

I mean, Apple already does it – those who go for the iPhone Pro models enjoy a more advanced chipset than those who buy the vanilla iPhone.

Since the 2nm-class process will be extremely expensive to manufacture, splitting the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 family into Pro and non-Pro variants allows Qualcomm to give phone makers a way to stay in the “flagship” branding without breaking the bank (too much).

Stop the price hikes!