Qualcomm Introduces Snapdragon 8 Gen 5: Mid-range Chipset with Significant Performance Boost
Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 — a new processor for mid-range smartphones that will serve as a more affordable alternative to the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
What is known
The chipset is built on a 3-nm process and uses the third-generation Oryon architecture. The configuration includes eight cores: two performance cores with a frequency of 3.8 GHz and six energy-efficient cores at 3.32 GHz, with graphics handled by the Adreno 840 accelerator clocked at up to 1.2 GHz. However, the chipset does not support the UFS 4.1 protocol, and the NPU performance is somewhat reduced, but Qualcomm did not specify by how much.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 performance compared to the previous model of a similar class:
- CPU is 36% faster
- GPU increased by 11%
- Energy efficiency improved by 13%
- AI tasks — up to 46% increase.
The built-in Snapdragon X80 modem provides data transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps. In AnTuTu tests, the chip scores over 3.3 million points, and in Geekbench — about 3000 in single-core and 10,000 in multi-core mode.
The first smartphones based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will be the OnePlus Ace 6 Pro Max and Vivo S50 Pro Mini, and later Meizu, iQOO, Motorola, Oppo, and Honor will release their models on the new chip.
Source: Qualcomm
