Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 earlier this year, promising a 20 percent increase in CPU and 23 percent increase in GPU performance over the previous Elite. Next came Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, but, confusingly, Qualcomm compared it to the two-year-old Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. So, what are the differences between elite and non-elite Gen 5 chips? The CPU runs at different clock speeds – 2x 3.8GHz + 6x 3.32GHz for the vanilla chip and 2x 4.61GHz + 6x 3.63GHz for the Elite.
The GPU on both chips is listed as “Adreno 840”, but they’re clearly not the same. And comparisons with the older 8 Gen 3 don’t help, so we have to turn to Geekbench.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs older 8 Gen 3
Several phones, such as the Moto X70 Ultra, have run the Geekbench. This includes running the OpenCL test, which shows that the GPU runs at 384 MHz.
Now, if we turn to Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 based phones like the Realme GT8 Pro that we benchmarked a while back, we can see that both 384MHz and 768MHz are listed. The latter is the boost frequency, which is missing from the non-Elite chip (the #53 reading value is the same 384 MHz as the #48 value, the base frequency).
Geekbench OpenCL Test: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (Moto x70 Ultra) • Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (Realme GT8 Pro)
Qualcomm would never say it officially, but it seems the vanilla Gen 5 chips are the ones that didn’t pass the frequency test that would have qualified them as elite chips. Also, the non-elite Adreno 840 lacks high-performance memory, which is 18MB of dedicated memory that helps increase bandwidth and reduce latency. The internal identifier for the Elite Adreno 840 is “Adreno 829”, while the non-Elite Adreno 840 is listed simply as “Adreno 840”.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Highlights
Apart from Motorola, OnePlus Ace 6T is another upcoming phone with Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. There are others (Qualcomm mentions IQ, Honor, Meizu and Vivo), so soon we’ll find out what the differences between the Elite and non-Elite Gen 5 chips are in practice.
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