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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is a SOC manufactured by Qualcomm, built on Qualcomm's officially announced 3 nm process technology. This processor features a 8-core architecture design, equipped with 8 MB of L3 cache. Overall specifications are targeted at mainstream high-performance application scenarios.

Specifications

CPU
Architecture
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency
4610 MHz
Cores
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
1792 KB
L2 cache
24 MB
L3 cache
8 MB
Process
3 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 840
GPU frequency
1200 MHz
Shading units
512
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
Bus
4x 16 Bit
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
Bluetooth
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Class
Flagship
Model number
SM8850

Benchmarks

AnTuTu 10 3115282
Geekbench 6 Single Core 3834
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 12396
FP32 (float) 3686

Performance Ranking

Geekbench 6 Single Core
2 Apple A19 Pro 4019
3 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E 96 100) 4003
4 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E 90 100) 3995
5 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-88-100 3836
6 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 3834
7 MediaTek Dimensity 9500 3781
8 Apple M4 iPad 3767
9 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-94-100) 3740
10 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E 84 100) 3633
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
11 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P 64 100) 14380
12 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-78-100) 14047
13 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus 12973
14 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100) 12970
15 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 12396
16 MediaTek Dimensity 9500 12189
17 Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus (X2P 42 100) 11952
18 Apple M3 iPad 11776
19 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P 46 100 11351

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