Qualcomm officially unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC with Oryon CPU cores

Qualcomm has officially unveiled its new high-end smartphone SoC called the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. As its name suggests, it is a cut-down version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and it will primarily be employed in flagship-adjacent smartphones such as the OnePlus 15R and Vivo X Fold 6. Like its Elite-branded counterpart, it is manufactured on TSMC's 3 nm node.

Under the hood, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (SM8845) comes with the same Oryon cores in a 2P + 6E layout. The P-cores can boost up to 3.8 GHz, and the E-cores up to 3.3 GHz. Qualcomm hasn't specified which GPU it uses, but an earlier Geekbench listing confirmed it was an Adreno 840. It supports LPDDR5X-9600 RAM and UFS 4.1 storage.

The GPU can power up to a 240 Hz QHD+ display or an external 8K display at 30 Hz. For gaming, it supports Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing with Global Illumination, Unreal Engine 5, Snapdragon Game Super Resolution and Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.1

For 5G connectivity, it uses a Snapdragon X80 5G modem (vs X85 on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5). However, Qualcomm uses the same FastConnect 7900 module on both chips that enables Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and Bluetooth LE. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 also appears to employ the same Spectra ISP with support for up to a single 320 MP camera module and video recording up to 4K 120 FPS and 1080p at 480 FPS.

Supported recording formats include Dolby Vision, Google Ultra HDR, HDR10, HDR10+ and HLG. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 supports AV1, Dolby Vision, H.264, H.265, HDR10, HDR10+, Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), VP8, and VP9 video codecs. For audio, it is compatible with Qualcomm aptX Adaptive, aptX Lossless, aptX Voice and Snapdragon Sound.