Qualcomm's upcoming flagship chipset tipped to break AnTuTu record

Later this month, Qualcomm is holding its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, where it's expected to unveil its next flagship chipset, which has recently been rumored to be called Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

Previously known as the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2, back in June the SoC was tipped to arrive with a solid 20-30% improvement in single-core Geekbench scores, and 10-15% improvement in multi-core compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Today a new rumor from China says the difference will be much more pronounced in AnTuTu.

Earlier today, MediaTek's Dimensity 9500 was said to score 4 million points in AnTuTu, and that will be the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's main competitor. Qualcomm's SoC, on the other hand, is now rumored to go up to between 4.2 million and 4.4 million.

Currently, the AnTuTu chart lists the Red Magic 10 Pro as the highest performing device with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, with an average score of 2.67 million.

So the increase would be at least 58% in this benchmark, if the rumored scores for the 8 Elite Gen 5 are accurate, of course. It would also be 5% to 10% better than the Dimensity 9500. Do however note that the Snapdragon 8 Elite's results are on AnTuTu v10, and the leaked scores for both the Dimensity 9500 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 are from AnTuTu v11. Scores might not directly compare between the benchmark app's generations.

Anyway, it does look like we have some pretty exciting months ahead of us, with the announcement of both of these next-gen chipsets and their subsequent use in myriad flagship smartphones to come.

Source (in Chinese)