Qualcomm Reveals Its Not-so-elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5

Qualcomm still sees this arsenic a flagship chipset, conscionable not an “Elite” one.

When Qualcomm announced its high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset successful November, it mentioned that a non-Elite type was connected nan way, designed to powerfulness a much affordable tier of flagship phones. Now, that spot has yet arrived, pinch immoderate drops successful capacity but nan aforesaid halfway characteristic set.

Qualcomm compares nan 8 Gen 5 to 2023’s 8 Gen 3, boasting a 36 percent betterment successful CPU capacity and 11 percent betterment successful GPU capacity compared to that chip, on pinch ratio improvements. But since nan 8 Gen 3 is 2 years old, and Qualcomm has changed CPU architecture successful nan meantime, nan caller 8 Elite Gen 5 is simply a much useful comparison.

The 8 Gen 5 has a akin Oryon CPU building to nan Elite, but astatine slower timepiece speeds — its six capacity cores headdress astatine 3.32GHz, pinch its 2 premier cores astatine 3.8GHz, compared to 3.62GHz and 4.6GHz respectively successful nan Elite. On paper, that besides sets its capacity beneath past year’s Snapdragon 8 Elite, though we’ll person to hold to spot really existent smartphones comparison successful practice.

There are a fewer different downgrades from nan caller Elite. The regular Gen 5’s X80 modem has somewhat slower highest 5G speeds, though Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capacity should beryllium nan same, and some outer and ultra wideband (UWB) are supported. It besides has somewhat downgraded specs connected its Adreno GPU and Hexagon AI NPU, though Qualcomm has gone into little item connected nan nonstop comparisons there, and it can’t usage nan latest UFS 4.1 storage. But different specs are identical crossed nan 2 chipsets, including charging capabilities, show support, and nan immense mostly of nan camera hardware options.

Qualcomm says that respective manufacturers, including Motorola, OnePlus, and Vivo, person already agreed to usage nan spot successful caller phones, pinch nan first devices owed to look “in nan coming weeks.” That mightiness mean we’ll spot it successful nan OnePlus 15R, now confirmed to motorboat successful nan US connected December 17th.