Qualcomm has just dropped the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and the first question most of you would ask is: how powerful is it really? It makes sense too because both Google and Samsung have introduced their in-house SoCs on their flagship phones over the past two months. While consumer devices with the new Snapdragon chip are still a few weeks away, I got a chance to test the platform on a reference device at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawai.

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I had about 40 minutes with this reference device, so it wasn’t possible to run all the tests, but some of these scores give an early idea of where Qualcomm’s chipset stands against rival. Few disclaimers though: these tests weren’t run on a retail handset. Qualcomm had paired the 8 Elite Gen

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