Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Google Tensor G5: Benchmarks and Specs

Qualcomm has released its 2025 flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which will power ultra-premium Android smartphones through the coming year. Google, on the other hand, recently released the Pixel 10 series featuring its in-house Tensor G5 chipset. While the Tensor G5 has improved and brings notable improvements, can it really stand up to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5? To find out, we put both chipsets to the test across Geekbench and other benchmarks.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Google Tensor G5: Geekbench Score

In an early Geekbench leak, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 scored 3,831 in single-core and 11,525 in multi-core. This test was done on the Xiaomi 17 Pro phone. By comparison, Google's Tensor G5, running on the Pixel 10 Pro achieved 2,285 in single-core workloads and 6,191 in multi-core tasks.

It's abundantly clear that Qualcomm's 3rd-gen Oryon CPU cores are significantly faster than the older Arm Cortex CPU cores available on the Tensor G5. In single-core tasks, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 delivers an impressive 68% performance gain and in multi-core tasks, there is a 1.8x uplift in performance. Taken together, the CPU performance gap between the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Tensor G5 is pretty substantial.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Google Tensor G5: Specs Comparison

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is fabricated on TSMC's improved 3nm (N3P) process node, while the Tensor G5 is manufactured on TSMC's last-gen 3nm (N3E) node. Both chipsets feature an 8-core CPU setup, but Qualcomm packs its Nuvia-designed Oryon v3 CPU cores while the Tensor G5 features Arm's older Cortex CPU cores.

On the GPU front, the 8 Elite Gen 5 comes with the powerful Adreno 840 GPU, and the Tensor G5 includes the DXT-48-1536 GPU from Imagination Technologies, but it doesn't have support for ray tracing.