The first wave of benchmarks for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s engineering sample is here, showing that Qualcomm prioritized insane levels of performance for this chipset, with the new scores showing that the flagship is now the fastest mobile CPU on the planet. Unfortunately, to obtain this disparity, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 had to sacrifice on efficiency to the point that it consumes 61 percent more power than the A19 Pro in Geekbench 6.

New compute performance comparison shows the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is 22.5 percent faster than its predecessor, but the A19 Pro has a 42 percent higher’ performance per watt’ in one specific test

Without wasting precious time, Geekerwan took a deep technical dive with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5’s single-core and multi-core performance,

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