Geekbench reveals the differences between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 8 Elite Gen 5 GPUs | Infinium-tech
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 earlier this year, promising a 20% increase in CPU and 23% increase in GPU performance compared to 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 elite and non-elite Gen 5 chips? The CPUs run 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 obviously not the same. And comparisons to the older 8 Gen 3 don’t help, so we’ll have to turn to Geekbench.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs older 8 Gen 3
Several phones, like the Moto X70 Ultra, run on Geekbench. This includes driving opencl testWhich shows that the GPU runs at 384MHz.
Now, if we turn to Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 based phones 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 missing in the non-Elite chip (#53 reads value #48, the same as the base frequency of 384 MHz).
Geekbench OpenCL tests: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (Moto X70 Ultra) • Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (Realme GT 8 Pro)
Qualcomm would never officially say it, but it seems the vanilla Gen 5 chips are the ones that didn’t pass the frequency tests that would have qualified them as elite chips. Additionally, the non-elite Adreno 840 lacks high-performance memory, which is 18 MB 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 mentioned iQOO, Honor, Meizu and vivo), so soon we will find out what the differences are between Elite and non-Elite Gen 5 chips in practice.
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