Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 5: Benchmarks and Specs

After the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Qualcomm has now announced another premium chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. The Elite variant brings higher clock speeds, which results in superior CPU performance, however, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is no slouch either. To see how wide the performance gap really is between the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, let's go through our benchmark comparison.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 5: Geekbench Score

We tested the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in our OnePlus 15 review and in the Geekbench run, it scored 3,563 in single-core and 10,503 in multi-core. Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, running on the OnePlus Ace 6T (launching as OnePlus 15R in India) appeared on Geekbench and it achieved 2,921 in single-core and 9,753 in multi-core.

If we consider these numbers, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is around 22% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 in single-core tasks, and about 7% faster in multi-core workloads. Given that both processors pack the same 3rd-gen Oryon CPU with eight cores, the multi-core CPU performance is more or less the same.

The key difference lies in clock speeds: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 runs its two prime cores at 3.8GHz, while the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 pushes them to 4.60GHz. There is a difference of 800MHz in top clock speeds which results in lower single-core CPU performance. In my book, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 still stands tall as a near-flagship processor.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 5: AnTuTu Score

The AnTuTu V11 score of Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 came around 3,751,143 points. However, we don't know the AnTuTu score of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset yet. That said, well-known tipster DCS says the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is expected to score around 3.4 million points on the same AnTuTu V11 benchmark. In that sense, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is around 10% faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 if we go by their early AnTuTu V11 scores.

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 5: Specs Comparison

Both the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 are nearly identical, except the latter's top frequency is down-clocked to 3.8GHz. Apart from that, the Adreno 840 GPU on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 has two GPU slices, instead of three, and there is no support for Adreno High Performance Memory (HPM). You also get Adreno Frame Motion 2.1 instead of 3.0 on the SD 8 Gen 5.