Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 2: AnTuTu benchmark leak hints at performance of future flagship smartphones

Digital Chat Station has shared what appears to be the first benchmark result for the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 2, stylised as the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2. Supposedly, the benchmark result was achieved using the RedMagic 8S Pro, a forthcoming gaming smartphone that will combine the flagship chipset with fast memory and equally fast storage. Release details for the RedMagic 8S Pro are unknown at this stage; for reference, its direct predecessor arrived in July 2022. 

With a score of approximately 1.7 million points in AnTuTu v10, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 2 and RedMagic 8S Pro are not far off a recent leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 development device. As we noted in that article, AnTuTu v10 generally produces higher scores than AnTuTu v9. Still, we have observed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy scoring about 1.52 million points in AnTuTu v10, with others observing a lower score of nearer 1.4 million.

In short, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 2 delivers 14% higher CPU performance than its predecessor, even with the latter's higher score in AnTuTu v10. Conversely, only a 5.9% difference exists between the pair's GPUs. While there is a similar gap when comparing the GPU performance of the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 2 with the new Dimensity 9200+, MediaTek's chipset matches Qualcomm's in the AnTuTu v10 CPU benchmark. 

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