Geekbench reveals the differences between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite Gen 5 GPUs

Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 earlier this year, promising a 20% increase in CPU and a 23% increase in GPU performance over the previous Elite. Then came the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, but, confusingly, Qualcomm compared it to the two-year-old Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. So, what are the differences between the 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 GPUs on both chips are listed as “Adreno 840”, but they are clearly not the same. And the comparison with the old 8 Gen 3 doesn’t help, so we have to turn to Geekbench.

Several phones, e.g. the Moto X70 Ultra, have run Geekbench. This includes running the OpenCL test, which reveals that the GPU runs at 384MHz.

Now, if we turn to a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 based phone like the Realme GT 8 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 what’s missing from the non-Elite chip (the value for reading #53 is the same 384MHz as value #48, the base frequency).

Geekbench OpenCL test: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (Moto X70 Ultra) • Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (Realme GT 8 Pro)

Qualcomm would never officially say it, but it looks like the vanilla Gen 5 chips are the ones that didn’t pass the frequency tests that would have qualified them as Elite chips. Also, the non-Elite Adreno 840 lacks the High-Performance Memory, which is 18MB of dedicated memory that helps increase bandwidth and decrease latency. The internal identifier for the Elite Adreno 840 is “Adreno 829”, while the non-Elite Adreno 840 is listed as just “Adreno 840.”

Besides the Motorola, the OnePlus Ace 6T is another upcoming phone with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. There are others too (Qualcomm mentions iQOO, Honor, Meizu and vivo), so soon we will find out what the differences between Elite and non-Elite Gen 5 chips are in practice.

Source | Via