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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X23x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A7104x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510 2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency 3000 MHz 4610 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache 0 24 MB
L3 cache 0 8 MB
Process 4 nm 3 nm
TDP 5.3 W
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
L1 cache 1792 KB
Graphics
GPU name Adreno 730 Adreno 840
GPU frequency 818 MHz 1200 MHz
Execution units 2
Shading units 768 512
Vulkan version 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 12.1
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3670 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Bluetooth 5.3 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Dec 2021 Sep 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8450 SM8850
Official page Official Link ↗
AI
NPU Hexagon
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 1118907 3115282
Geekbench 6 Single Core 1664 3834
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 4030 12396
FP32 (float) 2512 3686