The first phone of the new Snapdragon 8 Elite General 5 has already been announced, but they are not yet available. That said, we have a prototype device we can use for the first period of the benchmark. We can’t show you this yet, but here’s the talk of stepping in the Rail GT8 Pro Protype:
Let’s look closely at first. The 8-Core CPU includes third-generation Oven Corps-two large and six mediums. Large core smartphone can reach new heights in terms of clock speed, which goes up to 4.61GHz. Overall, the CPU is expected to provide 20 % performance improvement compared to the previous generation. The new CPU is 35 % more powerful, resulting in the entire chip set 16 % more efficient. Note: Once we have the market -ready phones, we will run a battery life test.
The latest adreno GPU promises to increase power savings (up to 20 %) as well as a 23 % increase in overall performance. Adrena High Performance Memory (HPM) is 18MB dedicated memory that improves efficiency and speed.
Snapdragon 8 Elite General 5
Now for the benchmark. Instead of comparing individual devices, we decided to take an average for several large flagship chips that were relevant in 2025 and 2024 to find out how the new Snapdragon 8 Elite General 5 is compared.
Starting with Antoto 10, Snapdragon 8 Elite General reached 3 million points by 5 prototype arm. 20 % improvement is what Qualcomm promised and 20 % is what we have received compared to the average of Snapdragon 8 elite phones that we have experienced and dimensions are more than 9400 average 7 % increase. It has also defeated the Apple A19 Pro, though the results of Antoto are not cross platforms.
The next test is 3DMark’s Wildlife Extra, which is focused on GPU. Once again, we look at the 20 % performance growth on the old elite chip, which is closer to the official number. Also, the dimension looks better with a 14 % improvement at 9400. 9500 was recently announced, of course, but we have not yet experienced it.
Ray tracing is a new thing in desktop graphics. However, it is so expensive that only the top GPU can draw it to a good frame rate. According to the number of Qualcomm, smartphone GPU is also developing its ray tracing access hardware.
And these are the blasts that we saw in the solar bay test, which is focused on ray tracing. Compared to dimensions 9400, the new Snapdragon is 16 % ahead. Apple also worked on hardware ray tracing support for A19 Pro, but it needs to work more because according to this test, Qualcomm’s top chip is a solid 27 % ahead.
So far, great. Snapdragon 8 Elite General is meeting 5 expectations, at least when it works in this prototype device. Adreno GPU is a specialty of Qualcomm’s chip sets and measures well against the CPU Corps (now in their third generation) competition.
There are some things that we can’t test with this prototype device – such as battery life and permanent performance, which depends firmly on each phone’s hardware. Some makers use large chamber and batteries of vapor than others, it’s just as easy. Therefore, we will have to wait for the first Snapdragon 8 Elite General 5 phones to reach the office and then we can proceed with more tests.
