In abstract
- Assessments present the brand new Elite 8 Gen 5 is the quickest chip we’ve ever examined
- It beats the iPhone 17 Professional by greater than 30%
- It additionally seems to be much more of an enchancment on the 8 Elite than Qualcomm claims
Qualcomm’s new flagship smartphone processor is official. On the Snapdragon Summit, we’ve been in a position to benchmark the chip, confirming that it not solely beats Apple’s rival A19 Professional (which powers the iPhone 17 Professional), however thrashes it.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (not Elite 2 as anticipated) is touted because the ‘quickest cell CPU on this planet’ and which may properly be true. We’ve run some benchmarks and they’re significantly spectacular.
Apple’s top-end iPhones might be troublesome to beat in sure checks, however simply try the outcomes beneath. It’s not even shut.
It’s price noting that we’re testing the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 on a reference design cellphone that may by no means be launched. Nonetheless, it does present a good suggestion of what telephones with the chip can be like.
The reference design isn’t overclocked in any manner and we examined at room temperature in a convention room, with no particular lab situations which may enhance outcomes. We run checks many instances and common scores to eradicate anomalies.
Relatedly, MediaTek simply introduced its new flagship Dimensity 9500, however we haven’t been in a position to benchmark that for comparability.
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Geekbench 6
We’re specializing in Geekbench 6 right here because it’s the benchmarking app we’ve used the longest at Tech Advisor and in addition as a result of it isn’t as affected by the opposite main bits of {hardware} that make up a cellphone just like the display screen.
With scores into the 12,000 vary, that is formally the quickest chip we’ve ever examined. It blows the iPhone 17 Professional (which we examined in the identical room on the similar time) out of the water, because it solely reached the 9,000 vary.
In comparison with the earlier era, it’s a formidable enchancment, even with the overclocked 8 Elite contained in the Galaxy S25 Extremely.
Once we crunched the numbers, we discovered that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is a whopping 30.6% sooner than the A19 Professional within the iPhone 17 Professional and 31% sooner than the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy within the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely.
This surpasses Qualcomm’s declare of a 20% CPU enchancment.
Single-core figures aren’t so spectacular, however they don’t matter half as a lot. The reference design machine Qualcomm supplied had a whopping 24GB of LPDDR5X RAM, however reminiscence efficiency doesn’t have an effect on Geekbench a lot in comparison with earlier variations of the app.
Different checks
We additionally ran another checks on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for good measure, although they’re much less vital due to the reference design machine used or the truth that we don’t sometimes run these on telephones we assessment.
Nonetheless, a rating of 4,292,032 in AnTuTu could be very spectacular and Qualcomm says it will possibly hit 4.5M.
PCMark Work 3.0 Efficiency got here out at a median of 23,811 and in GFXBench (which we do use, however which is affected by issues like display screen decision), hit 102- and 115fps within the hardest Aztec Excessive take a look at utilizing Open and Vulkan APIs, respectively.
Whereas the numbers are only a reference design, they offer us a good suggestion of how briskly the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 gadgets can be. They embrace the Xiaomi 17 collection and Samsung Galaxy S26 collection.
Qualcomm paid for my journey, airfare, and meals to journey to its Snapdragon Expertise Summit. The corporate didn’t ask for or exert management over Tech Advisor’s content material.
