Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: Benchmarks and Specs

At the Snapdragon Summit 2025, Qualcomm finally launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, its flagship chipset featuring the 3rd-gen Oryon CPU and the Adreno 840 GPU. Qualcomm even went so far as to call it the “world’s fastest mobile CPU.” So to test the claim, we took a closer look at the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s benchmark results on Geekbench and AnTuTu. Let’s see how it stacks up.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 AnTuTu Score

Running on the Qualcomm reference device (QRD), the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has scored a whopping 4,266,120 points on the AnTuTu V11 benchmark, crossing the 4-million mark. The latest AnTuTu V11 benchmark has a different scoring methodology and generally scores higher than V10, but it's still a major milestone.

The 8-core Oryon v3 CPU has itself scored 1,279,784 points and the Adreno 840 GPU achieved an astounding 1,450,598 points. For comparison, the Snapdragon 8 Elite has scored 3,011,458 points on the latest AnTuTu V11 benchmark. Meanwhile, the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 has also crossed the 4-million mark on the AnTuTu V11 benchmark.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Geekbench Score

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 has appeared on Geekbench with a massive score, running on the Xiaomi 17 Pro series device. In the leaked Geekbench listing, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 achieved a remarkable 3,831 points in single-core and 11,515 in multi-core.

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is running two Oryon v3 prime cores at 4.60GHz and six Oryon v3 performance cores at 3.62GHz. The leaked scores suggest that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is around 26% faster in single-core performance, and around 24% faster multi-core performance, compared to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite.

During the launch event, Qualcomm revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers 20% faster single-core performance, and 17% improvement in multi-core performance.

It appears Qualcomm has finally matched Apple's A19 Pro in single-core performance with its Nuvia-designed, 3rd-gen Oryon CPU cores. The 8 Elite Gen 5 already outperformed the A19 Pro in multi-core workloads, thanks to its 8-core CPU setup.

Having said that, bear in mind that Qualcomm reached this level of performance at 4.60GHz while Apple achieved this at a lower 4.26GHz. It means that Apple's A19 Pro CPU is still more power-efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Specs

Talking about the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 specifications, it's fabricated on TSMC's improved 3nm (N3P) process node and features eight 3rd-gen Oryon CPU cores. There are 2x Oryon prime cores, clocked up to 4.60GHz,  and 6x Oryon performance cores, clocked up to 3.62GHz. On the GPU side, it brings the powerful Adreno 840 GPU, coupled with 12MB of Adreno High Performance Memory (HPM).