Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 performance detailed before launch with new OnePlus Ace 6T

Qualcomm will be officially presenting the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 on November 26 as the sub-flagship alternative to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. In the meantime, the likes of OnePlus and Vivo have confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will be available across devices like the Ace 6T and S50 Pro mini before the end of the year.

Earlier this week, the same chipset surfaced on Geekbench in what is believed to be the OnePlus Ace 6T. Based on the scores achieved then and since, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 manages roughly the same single-core performance as the Snapdragon 8 Elite while outperforming it in multi-core workloads. From that, one can glean that the Ace 6T could match the existing OnePlus 13 when it comes to performance (curr. $799 on Amazon).

Now, an official AnTuTu V11 score indicates that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 could outperform the Snapdragon 8 Elite in other areas too. For reference, the chipset was benchmarked again inside the Ace 6T, which AnTuTu confirms has a 165 Hz display, 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 1 TB of UFS 4.1 storage. As the image below shows, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 exceeds over 3.5 million points in AnTuTu V11, a score that would see the Ace 6T falling short of AnTuTu's top 10 official rankings.

For context, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 regularly breaks 4 million points inside flagships like the Honor Magic8 Pro, Vivo X300 Pro and the OnePlus 15. With that being said, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 outscores the Snapdragon 8 Elite across AnTuTu V11's CPU, memory and UX benchmarks. The former's Adreno 840 does push far beyond the Adreno 830 inside the platform's GPU benchmark, though.