Performance
Under the hood, the ZTE Axon Elite is powered by the Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 chipset. This includes an octa-core CPU, split between four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5 GHz for efficiency and four Cortex-A57 cores at 2.0 GHz for performance. Coupled with 3GB of RAM and an Adreno 430 GPU, the phone was adept at running multiple applications and games of its era smoothly. However, the Snapdragon 810 was known to have some thermal issues, which could potentially impact performance during extended heavy usage.