An engineering sample of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 beats every mobile chipset out there in multi-core tests, but at a much higher power draw
The first wave of benchmarks for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s engineering sample is here, showing that Qualcomm prioritized insane levels of performance for this chipset, with the new scores showing that the flagship is now the fastest mobile CPU on the planet. Unfortunately, to obtain this disparity, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 had to sacrifice on efficiency to the point that it consumes 61 percent more power than the A19 Pro in Geekbench 6.New compute performance comparison shows the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is 22.5 percent faster than its predecessor, but the A19 Pro has a 42 percent higher’ performance per watt’ in one specific test
Without wasting precious time, Geekerwan took a deep technical dive with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s single-core and multi-core performance, with Geekbench 6 showing once again that the A19 Pro currently reigns supreme in single-threaded workloads. However, Apple’s flagship A-series chipset is only 4.5 percent faster as it obtains a score of 4,019 compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s 3,846, indicating that Qualcomm is bridging the gap slowly but surely.
