{"id":200738,"date":"2025-11-26T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200738\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:37:08","slug":"qualcomm-reveals-its-not-so-elite-snapdragon-8-gen-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200738\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm reveals its not-so-elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">When Qualcomm announced its high-end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/784997\/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset<\/a> in November, it mentioned that a non-Elite version was on the way, designed to power a more affordable tier of flagship phones. Now, that chip has finally arrived, with some drops in performance but the same core feature set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Qualcomm compares the 8 Gen 5 to 2023\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/10\/24\/23928867\/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-3-on-device-ai-meta-llama-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 Gen 3<\/a>, boasting a 36 percent improvement in CPU performance and 11 percent improvement in GPU performance compared to that chip, along with efficiency improvements. But since the 8 Gen 3 is two years old, and Qualcomm has changed CPU architecture in the meantime, the recent 8 Elite Gen 5 is a more useful comparison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The 8 Gen 5 has a similar Oryon CPU structure to the Elite, but at slower clock speeds \u2014 its six performance cores cap at 3.32GHz, with its two prime cores at 3.8GHz, compared to 3.62GHz and 4.6GHz respectively in the Elite. On paper, that also sets its performance below last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/21\/24273802\/qualcomm-8-elite-oryon-cpu-android-smartphone-soc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snapdragon 8 Elite<\/a>, though we\u2019ll have to wait to see how actual smartphones compare in practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">There are a few other downgrades from the new Elite. The regular Gen 5\u2019s X80 modem has slightly slower peak 5G speeds, though Bluetooth and Wi-Fi performance should be the same, and both satellite and ultra wideband (UWB) are supported. It also has slightly downgraded specs on its Adreno GPU and Hexagon AI NPU, though Qualcomm has gone into less detail on the exact comparisons there, and it can\u2019t use the latest UFS 4.1 storage. But other specs are identical across the two chipsets, including charging capabilities, display support, and the vast majority of the camera hardware options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Qualcomm says that several manufacturers, including Motorola, OnePlus, and Vivo, have already agreed to use the chip in new phones, with the first devices due to appear \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d That might mean we\u2019ll see it in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/827430\/oneplus-15r-will-get-a-late-launch-next-month\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OnePlus 15R<\/a>, now confirmed to launch in the US on December 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Qualcomm announced its high-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset in November, it mentioned that a non-Elite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[32128,18,282,19,17,279,5,1309,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-200738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-chips","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phones","16":"tag-tech","17":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115614622994154891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}