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Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) vs Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
VS
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

We compared two 8-core processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) (with Adreno 830 graphics) and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (Adreno 840). Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v11
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (75)

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size than the Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
  • Shows better (up to 26%) AnTuTu 11 score – 3950K vs 3126K
  • Better instruction set architecture
  • Higher GPU frequency (~18%)
  • Performs 18% better in floating-point computations
  • 10% higher CPU clock speed (4740 vs 4320 MHz)

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
vs
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
CPU 893474 1112833
GPU 1133808 1494722
Memory 427210 442350
UX 671910 900177
Total score 3126402 3950082
Samples [541 tests] [283 tests]
Submit your AnTuTu result

GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Asset compression 367.8 MB/sec 421.8 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 223.5 pages/sec 238 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 257 Mpixels/sec 286.6 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 234.4 images/sec 330.6 images/sec
HDR 315.8 Mpixels/sec 308.4 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 32.7 images/sec 40.7 images/sec
Photo processing 90.6 images/sec 98.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.4 Mpixels/sec 14.1 Mpixels/sec
Samples 148 tests 79 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Background blur 45.3 images/sec 51.9 images/sec
Face detection 21.6 images/sec 24.9 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.73 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.91 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.75 Gpixels/sec 2.04 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 96.8 Gpixels/sec 115.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 3848 FPS 4390.2 FPS
API Vulkan Vulkan
Samples 100 tests 50 tests

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score 2386 2737
Stability - 67%
Graphics test 18 FPS 20 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Score 10874 12156
Graphics test 41 FPS 46 FPS
Section 1 47 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 41 FPS 46 FPS
Section 3 35 FPS 40 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score 5664 6490
Stability 51% -
Graphics test 33 FPS 38 FPS

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 21945 31126
Video editing score 8458 8963
Data manipulation score 16086 19422
Photo editing score 39118 62111
Writing score 22647 40875
Phones tested 36 models 13 models

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-29 (VortexGen)AnTuTu 123414404
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (Projeto_11)AnTuTu 123618549
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (Chris.D)AnTuTu 123940532
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (Yunon)AnTuTu 123325373
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (PenPen)AnTuTu 123242949
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-30 (HoΓ ng HαΊ£i)AnTuTu 123638992
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (Nikko)AnTuTu 113512813
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-28 (nminh)AnTuTu 124038854
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-27 (Johnnis)AnTuTu 123903835
πŸ“˜ 2026-09-26 (JJJ)AnTuTu 123290752
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

CPU

Architecture 2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)		 2x 4.74 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime
6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4320 MHz 4740 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 12 MB
L3 cache 8 MB 12 MB
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W 8 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 830 Adreno 840
Architecture Adreno 800 Adreno 800
GPU frequency 1100 MHz 1300 MHz
Pipelines 3 3
Shading units 512 512
Total shaders 1536 1536
FLOPS 3379.2 Gigaflops 3993.6 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 1.4
OpenCL version 3.0 3.0
DirectX version 12.1 12.1

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 5300 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 84.8 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 3840 x 2540
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9		 - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV		 - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X80 Snapdragon X85
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 12500 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3700 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 7
Bluetooth 6.0 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced October 2024 September 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8750-AB SM8850-AC, SM8850-5-AC, SM8850-1-AD
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) official site Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site
Successor - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 -
Further details
Notes on Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4):
    - The SM8750-AC model has a higher frequencyβ€”4,470 MHz for performance cores versus 4,320 MHz in the SM8750-AB and SM8750-3-AB modelsβ€”and its GPU is 100 MHz faster.

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Comments

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Garrett September 19, 2026 at 07:35 PM
Obviously the Gen 5 is better, but the Gen 4 was such a massive leap over the Gen 3 it'd be tough to justify the Gen 5
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Choso June 23, 2026 at 01:38 PM
How much % improvement upgrading from exynos 2100 to 8 Elite Gen 5 i mean games like ark ume and emulation pc
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Nobody July 21, 2026 at 10:26 PM
a lot, but for emulation you cannot reap the benefits yet until the chipset has matured (drivers). gen 4 and 3 probably better rn
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Anonymous September 8, 2026 at 09:48 PM
Ngl exact same upgrade I just made
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Ohm May 25, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I think the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 4 is powerful enough for long-term use and cheaper than 8 Elite Gen 5. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 are some minor upgrade CPU, GPU clock speed and modem.
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jjj May 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
increasing cpu power without i reducing power consumption for mobile processor is ridiculous
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Kxt0f May 1, 2026 at 06:47 PM
SD8 Elite Gen 4 is better financially logically.
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Iwantaxiaomi13pro March 15, 2026 at 07:34 PM
Id take gen4 beacause cheaper and bascially same thing
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a7med March 3, 2026 at 02:44 PM
its only that 16mb L3 cash
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Clutch March 7, 2026 at 02:48 PM
What is?
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nono February 14, 2026 at 02:34 PM
I saw in ytb gen 5 vs gen 4 in AAA emulator games: gen5 45-60fps, gen 4 max. 30fps but this gpu veries almost looks same why?
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Kep July 12, 2026 at 07:50 PM
Upgrade architecture cpu,cache,ray tracing,unreal engine,elite gaming,..
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Anon February 14, 2026 at 09:51 AM
Gen 5 have 16 mb L3 cache not 8 mb
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Clutch February 25, 2026 at 06:37 AM
It has an 8MB System-Level Cache, no L3 Cache.
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Thesigma January 23, 2026 at 03:33 PM
The snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 has some severe overheating issues, people are already complaining like crazy avout their OnePlus 15 overheating, probably due to the fact tgat the prime core is 4.6Ghz on an older 3nm node, thats crazy, also the 8 Elite Gen 4 beats the 8 Elite Gen 5 in long sessions of hard work at times
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anon ymous January 13, 2026 at 08:04 AM
they literally just overclocked the elite gen 4 and called it a day lmao
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Random February 4, 2026 at 06:00 AM
The 8 Elite Gen 5 was developed at the limit of 3nm. Surely 2nm would have been more suitable for its design.
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Mr.DrunkenBrain December 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I already saw the review of 8 elite Gen 5 VS 8 Elite (Gen 4) on gaming. TLDR: SD 8 Elite Gen 5 is just a little bit better, for only β‰₯ 1 Watt better. in other comparison, the performance difference of SD 8 Elite (Gen 4) VS SD 8 Gen 3 has a huge gap. So yeah, SD 8 Elite is still a pretty solid choice in terms of budget wise.
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Ko Thiha Tin December 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Thank, your advice is pretty usefull for Budget Wise. Budget Wise is wise.
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user December 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
no, I'm speaking as 8 elite owner, the gpu of this processor has an overly tdp, in order to make it at the level of the 8+gen1 that I had before, I had to cut the frequencies from 1100 to 900, when trying to work with its maximum power almost instantly the temperature of the cores go beyond 100 Β°C due to the laptop level tdp and the phone crashes. If in elite gen 5 they fixed the problem with power consumption it will make it at least a third more powerful in games
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user December 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Ko Thiha Tin, better buy an 8 Elite Gen 5 phone, it will be worth it
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ChinH August 18, 2026 at 03:04 AM
Are you out of your mind, kid? The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is vastly superior to the 8 Eliteβ€”not to mention the 8 Elite suffers from worse overheating issues than the 8 Elite Gen 5.
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Eruma Bai November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
SD Elite Gen 4 is still better than 8 Elite Gen 5 in real life usage because it is more mature and the apps develop for 8 Elite Gen 4 is more mature for optimization that means more performance, efficient and stable which translates for better user experience. Although 8 Elite Gen 5 shows better Antutu numbers, but in real life, Antutu score doesn.t matter in usage experience.
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Anon March 21, 2026 at 04:25 AM
That's not at all true, and that is not how it works. By that logic, the 8 Gen 1 should be faster than the 8 Elite Gen 5 because it's older and even more mature? That's just silly.
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NNN November 17, 2025 at 03:26 AM
The different actually very small about GPU but the CPU has a big gap which mean less bottleneck on heavy gaming or multi-task
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babayaga November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
its NOT getting 12300 multicore score bruh
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a7med December 1, 2025 at 03:12 PM
get in Iqoo and RedMagic
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ItzSolo November 8, 2025 at 09:03 PM
Yooo what is this πŸ’€
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Snapdragon name November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I am just surprised they took the Gen 5 name. I thought they discontinued the Gen 4 name and Nanoreview just cannot remove the Gen 4 name.
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Joo October 29, 2025 at 05:46 AM
Why both the SoC got exact same points in the review section while 8E G5 is better in all the benchmarks except GPU?
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Antutu fapper October 28, 2025 at 04:15 PM
Finally, the bar is maxed...... We all dreamt of something touching 100 maxing everything out... Now we all comparison fanatics can die peacefully Good bye guys. My dream is fulfilled and I'm Leaving you'll here.
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Gen 5 jorker November 4, 2025 at 09:08 PM
I stand by this πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰
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GOODusermatePK92 November 13, 2025 at 03:08 PM
Username checks out, such a shame it's no nut November or I'd join you
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SpiritCrusher October 17, 2025 at 02:34 PM
I know that results aren't final but at the very top they seem to be similar. Is it even worth to upgrade from 8gen3?
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Michael October 19, 2025 at 09:16 PM
Nope, unless you want to emulate some pc games on phone/ LLMs.
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21gunS October 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Michael, I'm emulating those so yes
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santiagobbboff October 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
wait until gen 6, it will be 2nm, there will be huge improvements again like there was with 8 elite gen 4
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IC_enjoyer December 30, 2025 at 06:25 PM
santiagobbboff, It's not guaranteed tho. Transistor size hasn't been shrinking for years now. 2nm is just a marketing jargon, the actual size is closer to 12nm. Until ASML done their research for High-NA EUV, I don't think SoC will get significantly better in the near future.
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Ishmael Erraman October 15, 2025 at 03:00 AM
What happened to the GPU scores of 8E Gen 5? It's even worse than its predecessor!
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Sss October 2, 2025 at 07:56 AM
8 elite 5 a bit stronger It just has better driver and higher frequency.
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kkk September 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'm never upgrading unless the turnips and a significant difference in real emulation games are shown. I have both 8 Elite and 8 Gen 3. To be fair, I mostly use 8 Gen 3 for emulation like Winlator and Switch. It gives me very balanced quality, performance, and stability. I post on YT and TKTK often, and I use my 8 Elite for tests as well, for Dolphin and some Winlator games and some PS2 games. If turnips come, I'll upgrade to 8 Gen 7, maybe 6.
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Foguin October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Is it worth upgrading from 8Gen3 to 8 elite or 8 elite gen5?
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Benson October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Foguin , No, Currently it's not worth it yet. If your upgrading best to wait for next Snapdragon SOC (1-2 gens from now) that has an Adreno 930 gpu
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Osho pawar October 9, 2025 at 01:59 PM
Foguin , No, practically no just wait for 1 year
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kkk October 10, 2025 at 09:48 AM
Foguin , That would be a downgrade considering how shitty emulators run on 8elite... you ll be enjoying glitches and unstability keep 8 gen 3 till after 2 generations maybe if the turnips are there of course if not.. just forget upgrading.
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TriplerYT September 24, 2025 at 07:39 PM
Qualcomm copying apple strategy 🀣
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Clutch September 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Could you kindly elaborate?
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Scython October 1, 2025 at 09:50 AM
I dont see copied Apple habit or strategy related to this SoC
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NotReally December 7, 2025 at 01:06 PM
Qualcomm already acquired Nuvia (Previously owned by Apple) few years ago. Nuvia, a company that exclusively customize Apple chipsets in the past. That is also why the CPU of the Flagship Snapdragon SoCs are closing the gap against SoCs of A Bionic CPUs
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Irfan Ali September 21, 2025 at 07:12 AM
There is mistake in 8 Elite Gen 5 Max Memory Size
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Garrett November 25, 2025 at 08:13 PM
What does it max out at?
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idk September 19, 2025 at 06:04 PM
8 gen 3 still the best
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a7med October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
its a trash when compared with them
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StevenMX October 9, 2025 at 01:23 PM
a7med, No.
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Ayochel October 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
StevenMX, Yoo, stevenMX, how you doing man?
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the poor a7med October 10, 2025 at 09:50 AM
a7med, 8 gen 3 us very balanced and can run the emulation at 4k which these both can't due to lack of drivers the only trash here is your patience while you're using what you have πŸ˜‚ lol
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Dablu kumar January 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
It's not like that, friend. Try both chipsets and then talk.
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Lmao September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Btw the difference between 8 gen 2 and 8 gen 3 is around 31% meanwhile this thing which will cost our families is just a 14% than the past one which already sucked?! if this is true it will be marked as the most nonsensical upgrade qulacomm ever done.
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Lol lol September 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We don't know yet! I'll mark these as rumors till the benchmarks show! also the architecture sucks a lot btw oryon shit is going to kill all the industry
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Youidiots August 19, 2025 at 06:19 PM
This was a first test with down throttled cpu speed (about 4ghz). The official cpu speed is about 4.6-4.7 (for samsung). So this comparison is not final...
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kem August 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
people here crying already? it's still in adjustment phase where they adjust the clockspeed too early
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Clutch August 19, 2025 at 01:07 PM
Especially since there are no concrete rumors surrounding a price increase. Why so upset about an incremental increase in performance over a processor that never got to stretch its legs? I want to see that 16 MB L3 cache pan out. You needed a nuclear reactor to power a cooling system sufficient enough to even sustain peak performance. I'll probably get ratioed anyway...
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a7med August 18, 2025 at 07:22 PM
This is boring Qualcomm Oryon architecture finished before it start due to the departure of its development engineers from the company.
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Yous September 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Wait what ? It's not possible
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Jayen August 18, 2025 at 01:13 PM
Well.. iphone 17 has 4000 single core and S26 just about 3300.. thats explain alot
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Sunnn August 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Single core does not tell the whole story behind its gaming or maximum capable performance, since both android and ios use multicore for games and other apps. Geekbench still favors ios and macos a lot.
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Masoud Fasihi September 16, 2025 at 06:34 PM
17 is 3700 Plus this is just a mere alpha test Also in 2025 multicore is as important as single core with it becoming more important than single core in the next 2 years
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steven poes August 16, 2025 at 05:53 PM
Wonder how long it'll take for these to be less than one nanometer
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KingDStefan August 19, 2025 at 09:07 AM
Probably never. You will need nanographene, which is too expensive to manufacture. And also all components must use nanographene (ram, ssd, mbo, etc). It will cost over $9000.
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veggieta August 30, 2025 at 06:43 PM
KingDStefan , the cost is.. over 9000!
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contadopedro August 15, 2025 at 04:30 PM
I have a feeling Qualcomm is going to die for its own pride.
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IndWarriorOp August 15, 2025 at 02:10 PM
It's not a big improvement πŸ˜žπŸ˜•
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Hijibij August 21, 2025 at 06:11 PM
I think it is. Because when the number goes up, n% looks so small.
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kem September 27, 2025 at 03:58 AM
reminder still in test phase πŸ™‚
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DRS August 15, 2025 at 05:55 AM
wooow im the first one here
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