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

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is one of Qualcomm's latest mobile chipsets, aimed at more affordable flagship phones, essentially the "flagship killer" smartphones. While last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite boasts higher clock speeds and a more powerful GPU, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 counters it by using the 3rd-gen Oryon CPU cores. It's also manufactured on TSMC's 3nm process node. Here's a comprehensive benchmark comparison between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and Snapdragon 8 Elite.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite: Geekbench Score

In our Snapdragon 8 Elite testing, the processor had a good Geekbench run, scoring 3,030 points in single-core and 9,270 points in multi-core. Meanwhile, we only have the leaked Geekbench scores for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, which achieved 2,921 points in single-core and 9,753 in multi-core. It's worth noting that the scores for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 were taken from the benchmark results of the OnePlus 15R, which recently appeared on Geekbench.

While the single-core scores of both processors are about the same, the difference of around 5% in multi-core scores is due to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 using the 3rd-gen Oryon cores. It's also manufactured on TSMC's N3P manufacturing process (vs N3E on the 8 Elite).

Despite the Snapdragon 8 Elite's higher frequency, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 matches the CPU performance, all thanks to the newer Oryon cores and manufacturing improvements. Not to mention, the higher clock speeds on the 8 Elite may result in more thermal throttling, which is why you should wait for upcoming flagship phones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite: AnTuTu Score

On the AnTuTu V10 benchmark, the Snapdragon 8 Elite scored 3,333,690 points. Currently, we don't have the AnTuTu score of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset. That said, according to DCS, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is rumoured to score around 3.4 million points on AnTuTu V11. It seems performance-wise, both the 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite are pretty much neck and neck.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite: Specs Comparison

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 offers newer, more efficient Oryon v3 cores, whereas the Snapdragon 8 Elite offers a better GPU, on paper. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is going to power many affordable flagships that could cost way less than the Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered smartphones. I would suggest waiting for more benchmark results to make a conclusive judgement.