Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus (30/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 30)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 25)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

30/100
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[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
DeviceBenchmark Score 30.0 Poor 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 25.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Graphics test 1 FPS 20 FPS
Stability 98% 67%
Section 1 — 52 FPS
Section 2 — 46 FPS
Section 3 — 40 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 686 Hexagon

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
CPU 193048 1112833
GPU 47353 1494722
Memory 106103 442350
Total score 477542 3950082
UX 131038 900177

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55) 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance
Cores 8 8
Frequency 2200 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
Process 8 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 3 W —
L1 cache — 192 KB
L2 cache — 12 MB
L3 cache — 12 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.2 6.0
Download speed Up to 2500 Mbps Up to 12500 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X51 Snapdragon X85
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 800 Mbps Up to 3700 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 7

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
API Vulkan Vulkan
Asset compression 94.7 MB/sec 421.8 MB/sec
Background blur 4.81 images/sec 40.7 images/sec
Edge detection 0.09 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 1.35 images/sec 24.9 images/sec
Feature matching 0.02 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.07 Gpixels/sec 2.04 Gpixels/sec
HDR 55.4 Mpixels/sec 308.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 45.9 pages/sec 238 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.05 Gpixels/sec 0.72 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 37.3 images/sec 330.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 65.4 Mpixels/sec 286.6 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 238.4 FPS 4390.2 FPS
Photo processing 14.9 images/sec 98.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 2.54 Mpixels/sec 14.1 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 79 tests
Stereo matching 0.73 Gpixels/sec 115.4 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
DirectX version 12.1 12.1
FLOPS 332.8 Gigaflops 3686.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 650 MHz 1200 MHz
OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
Pipelines 2 3
Shading units 128 512
Total shaders 256 1536
Vulkan version 1.1 1.4

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Announced October 2021 September 2025
Class Low end Flagship
Model number SM4350-AC SM8850-AC
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus official site Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site
Successor -Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 17 Gb/s 84.8 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 5300 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Audio codecs - AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP 1x 320MP
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2540
Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Video capture 1K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Data manipulation score 6337 15949
Phones tested 4 models 13 models
Photo editing score 26348 40273
Video editing score 4533 8052
Web score 11176 16855
Writing score 13103 26073

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2023-12-05(Guest #3) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2025-10-31(KhrizU) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-10-31->DYi22 AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-08(Aditya) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
1.Motorola Moto G62 5G 561482 —
2.Nokia G42 513089 —
3.Motorola Moto G (2023) 499266 —
4.Motorola Moto G53 477542 —
5.Nokia G310 5G 453516 —
Phones with Snapdragon 480 Plus AnTuTu v11 —
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus — 4716234
10.Honor Magic 8 — 4037547
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro — 4678468
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra — 4602290
4.Vivo X300 Ultra — 4247433
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus — 4244509
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra — 4231988
7.Honor Robot Phone — 4166339
8.Honor Magic V6 — 4166339
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro — 4117238
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — AnTuTu v11

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