Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 tipped to rival MediaTek Dimensity 9500 in future high-end smartphones

Various Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered smartphones now exist, following the chipset's official debut last month during Qualcomm's most recent Snapdragon Summit. In summary, the OnePlus 15 arrived earlier this week to replace the OnePlus 13 (curr. $783 on Amazon). Meanwhile, Honor, Nubia, Realme, RedMagic, iQOO and Xiaomi have already released Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered smartphones too.

By contrast, a lot less is known about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, despite it also featuring during the same Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit. To recap, the company outlined in September that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 would feature Oryon Prime cores clocked at 3.8 GHz with Performance cores capped at 3.32 GHz. However, the company elected against sharing more CPU or GPU configuration details.

While we await further information from Qualcomm, Digital Chat Station has filled in some gaps. For instance, the leaker suggests that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 adopts two Prime cores and six Performance cores built on TSMC's N3P node. Moreover, the leaker claims that the chipset features an Adreno 840 iGPU like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, but a 'scaled down' version also clocked at 1,200 MHz.

Allegedly, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will be capable of exceeding 3,000 in Geekbench 6 single-core and 10,000 multi-core, which would put it in the ballpark of MediaTek's Dimensity 9500. Meanwhile, Digital Chat Station reports that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 should average about 100 FPS in the GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins High Tier Offscreen benchmark. If that is the case, it would see the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 fall slightly behind the Snapdragon 8 Elite and 10% short the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 when it comes to GPU performance.