When we first went hands-on with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor back in September, its headline features had me excited. With CPU clock speeds reaching 5GHz, a massive 16MB Oryon Flex Cache, and Qualcomm’s next-generation Adreno GPU, the chip promised a major leap in performance for demanding workloads such as emulation and gaming. Benchmarking Qualcomm’s Gen 6 Reference Phone backed up these promises.
I’ve since spent the past week with the REDMAGIC 12 Pro, my first retail phone powered by Qualcomm’s new silicon. With 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and a substantial active cooling system, it should deliver a compelling showcase of next-generation performance that you can actually buy.