Early Benchmarks Reveal Spectacular Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Gaming Performance

Qualcomm solely simply unveiled the brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 as its newest flagship cellular SoC, and though there have been early Geekbench outcomes introduced on the Snapdragon Summit occasion, the primary real-world efficiency figures are beginning to emerge, courtesy of the as-yet unreleased OnePlus 15. These checks, carried out by Geekerwan on YouTube principally middle across the Adreno 840 GPU within the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is supposed to ship marked efficiency enhancements, because of the inclusion of Snapdragon HPM (High Performance Memory) cache and up to date GPU structure. It’s additionally vital to notice that these efficiency outcomes will not essentially be consultant of outcomes on different smartphones, since thermal administration is an enormous figuring out issue for smartphone efficiency, particularly relating to gaming and sustained workloads. The OnePlus system in query can be operating pre-release drivers and firmware, so it is doable that extra optimizations and efficiency positive factors are coming.

The YouTuber examined the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 throughout 5 totally different video games (Honkai: Impact third, Wuthering Waves, Honor of Kings, and Delta Force) and in contrast it to an iPhone 17 Pro Max and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500. The outcomes are reasonably spectacular, as the brand new Snapdragon SoC manages to maintain up with the Apple A19 Pro within the iPhone 17 Pro Max for essentially the most half. He additionally carried out his personal Geekbench 6 checks and located that the outcomes introduced on Qualcomm’s check units on the Snapdragon Summit have been consultant of retail units, with the OnePlus 15 scoring 12,352 factors within the multicore benchmark and three,836 in single-core checks.

Test outcomes for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:

• Honkai Impact third: 59.60 FPS (1680 × 770), 36 FPS 1% lows, 5.88 W; 59.4 FPS (2160 × 991), 28.2 FPS 1% lows, 7.33 W
• Wuthering Waves: 59.8 FPS, 29.3 FPS 1% lows, 5.13 W
• Honor of Kings: 119.9 FPS (FPS limiter hit), 119.0 FPS 1% lows, 3.47 W
• Delta Force: 164.9 FPS, 148.8 FPS 1% lows, 4.7 W

What’s additionally notable is that the 8 Elite managed to ship respectable sustained efficiency and 1% lows whereas constantly working extra effectively than virtually all the opposite units—in checks the place the Apple A19 Pro was concerned, it was the one SoC that traded blows with the 8 Elite Gen 5 relating to energy draw.

Check out the total suite of checks within the video beneath: