Samsung Galaxy S25 smartphones are powered by a custom Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC

Samsung unveiled a bunch of new gadgets at its Unpacked event, but the baddest of the bunch were likely those Galaxy S25 smartphones. Smartphones are only as good as the chips that power them, and the S25 series features a custom version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite system-on-a-chip (SoC.)

Qualcomm is calling it “the world’s fastest mobile system-on-a-chip” and it powers every Galaxy S25 version across the world, from the standard release to the Plus and the Ultra. This is the first time the same chipset has been used to power Galaxy S-series handsets globally since the S13. Typically, North America gets a Qualcomm SoC and the rest of the world gets Samsung's proprietary Exynos system.

This SoC features the second-gen custom Qualcomm Oryon CPU, along with the Adreno GPU and the Hexagon NPU for AI tasks. The system includes a Snapdragon X80 5G modem and ...