Qualcomm has quietly listed an underpowered variant of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chip with one fewer Performance core.

For gamers, the Asus ROG Phone 9 is another beast, which runs Qualcomm's latest SoC. All these phones are shaping up to be game-changers with the Snapdragon 8 Elite powering them.

The new slower Snapdragon 8 Elite variant codenamed SM850-3-AB is a hepta-core processor with one less performance core compared to 8 Elite.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC is a mid-range 5G mobile platform, that brings on-device AI-based advancements. The chip is claimed to deliver over 50 percent faster GPU performance, and 60 ...