Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Benchmarks: Qualcomm's Upcoming Mobile Chip Tested

In case you missed our other coverage from Snapdragon Summit 2024, new second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for Windows on Arm laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5—Qualcomm's fastest mobile parts ever—are on the way. The company's made some bold claims about performance, but of course, independent benchmarks tell the full story.

Retail devices with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 won't be launching for a while yet, but our man on the scene Dave Altavilla got a few minutes alone with one of the test platforms and was able to crank out some benchmarks. We've studiously compiled some benchmark data from other devices and we're going to present them for you here.

Geekbench Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Results

Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark that simulates real-world workloads in image processing and particle physics calculation scenarios. We tested all of ...