Qualcomm introduced its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite at its Snapdragon Summit 2024 earlier this week. The latest flagship SoC has a new 2 + 6 microarchitecture with Qualcomm Oryon CPUs with 2 x Prime cores clocked at 4.32Ghz and 4 x Performance cores at 3.53 GHz.
This promises 45% boost in CPU performance in single and multi-threaded benchmarks, and 44% improved power efficiency compared to the predecessor. It also promises 40% faster GPU performance improvement, 40% greater power efficiency and 35% increase in ray-tracing performance compared to the predecessor. It is fabricated using the TSMC 3nm Process Technology.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite reference device has a 6.8″ WFHD+ 144Hz AMOLED screen, 24GB LPDDR5x RAM at up to 4.8Gbps, 1TB UFS 4.0 storage and a 4167mAh battery. Here is the benchmark comparison. The values are provided by Qualcomm, and the final scores are an average from three iterations.
AnTuTu Benchmark 10
The Snapdragon 8 Elite tops the AnTuTu 10 benchmark clocking, 3,014,075 or 3 million points. This beats the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered vivo X100 Pro powered by Dimensity 9300 that scores 2.1 million points. B
Based on reviews from China, the X200 Pro powered by Dimensity 9400 scores 2.99 million points on AnTuTu coming close to the Qualcomm reference design, but the retail units powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite will be slightly better.
Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Score from the iPhone 16 Pro Max powered by Apple A18 Pro and the iPhone 16 Plus powered by A18 are better than the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the Geekbench 6 Single-Core CPU benchmark, but compared to other Android phones, this is way better.
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
The Snapdragon 8 Elite tops the Geekbench 6 Multi-Core CPU benchmark chart, beating the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and the iPhone 16 Plus is behind it. The flagship Snapdragon chip is way ahead of the older Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, and the difference is drastic.
Without considering the average, the scores displayed by Qualcomm shows higher Single-Core Geekbench 6 scores for the Snapdragon 8 Elite, beating the Apple 18 Pro chip in the iPhone 16 Pro.
Here are the values from other benchmarks shared by Qualcomm
- GFXBench Aztec Ruins Vulkan (Higher Tier) Offscreen 5.1 (1440p) – 125 fps
- GFXBench Aztec Ruins Vulkan (Normal Tier) Offscreen 5.1 (1080p) – 349 fps
- GFXBench Aztec Ruins OpenGL (High Tier) Offscreen 5.1 (1440p) – 150 fps
- 3Dmark WildLife Extreme Unlimited Offscreen – 43 fps
- 3Dmark WildLife Unlimited Offscreen – 159 fps
- AIMark 3.0– 3,08,217
- AITuTu 3.0 – 2,011,071
These values of Snapdragon 8 Elite are way better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, including GPU benchmarks, since Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 already offers good GPU performance.
Qualcomm and other companies confirmed that devices based on Snapdragon 8 Elite will start rolling out starting with the Xiaomi 15 series first, followed by iQOO 13, OnePlus 13 in the next few days.
The realme GT7 Pro and ROG Phone 9 are coming in early to mid-November, and the nubia Z70 Ultra and RedMagic 10 Pro are expected in late November. The vivo X200 Ultra should arrive in December.