Asus ROG Phone 9 has arrived with a new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset

Asus has announced that nan ROG Phone 9 will motorboat connected November 19, and travel equipped pinch nan caller Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset.

The institution will motorboat nan caller gaming telephone astatine its virtual “AI On, Game On” motorboat event, which propose AI will play a domiciled successful nan phone’s gaming experience.

Asus is apt to go 1 of nan first telephone makers to merchandise a Snapdragon 8 Elite-equipped phone, and has presented nan telephone successful unrecorded demos astatine nan Snapdragon Summit 2024.

The ROG Phone 9 makes usage of nan Snapdragon 8 Elite’s second-generation Qualcomm Oryon CPU and Qualcomm Adreno GPU, and is “designed to connection an immersive, lag free gaming experience”.

This Oryon CPU has been nan attraction of overmuch fanfare acknowledgment to its 2 capacity cores clocked astatine 4.32GHz – apparently nan fastest mobile CPU cores connected nan market.

The ROG Phone 9 follows up nan ROG Phone 8 Pro, our existent prime for the champion gaming phone, and we expect to spot it subordinate aliases switch its predecessor erstwhile we’ve had a chance to put it done our rigorous testing process.

In position of design, Asus calls nan ROG Phone 9 “gamer-centric”: an angular camera bump, textured backmost panel, and what appears to beryllium a dot matrix show connected nan rear of nan telephone springiness it a unsocial look successful keeping pinch nan wider Republic of Gamers brand.

And while Asus are promising nan “smoothest gaming acquisition pinch immersive features”, we’ve yet to spot immoderate capacity benchmarks beyond nan wide specifications of nan Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset.

Snapdragon 8 Elite - nan title is connected

As mentioned, nan ROG Phone will apt beryllium 1 of nan first phones to vessel pinch Qualcomm’s caller flagship chipset, and we expect to spot nan Snapdragon 8 Elite popular up successful galore of nan best phones going forward.

Xiaomi is tipped to beryllium nan first institution to merchandise a telephone powered by nan caller chipset, though pinch nan upcoming Xiaomi 15 bid improbable to spot a US merchandise nan ROG Phone 9 still has a chance of being nan first globally released Snapdragon 8 Elite phone.

As we antecedently reported, nan Snapdragon 8 Elite is astir apt nan rumored Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 successful each but name, and will apt correspond an incremental upgrade for nan de facto leader successful nan Android chipset world.

For nan latest updates connected nan ROG Phone 9, beryllium judge to travel our Asus phones coverage – and for each nan latest from this year’s Snapdragon Summit, beryllium judge to cheque retired our phones coverage and computing coverage.

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