Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

[ 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 835 (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 26)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 19)
[ WINNER ]
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

97/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

26/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
DeviceBenchmark Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 26.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 19.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Graphics test 20 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 46 FPS —
Section 3 40 FPS —
Stability 67% 97%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon 682

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
CPU 1112833 148324
GPU 1494722 101521
Memory 442350 88938
Total score 3950082 438016
UX 900177 99233

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Architecture 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance 4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2450 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 192 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 2 MB
L3 cache 12 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 10 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 9 W
Transistor count — 3 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 16
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 6.0 5.0
Download speed Up to 12500 Mbps Up to 1000 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X85 X16
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 5

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
API Vulkan OpenCL
Asset compression 421.8 MB/sec 87.1 MB/sec
Background blur 40.7 images/sec 2.93 images/sec
Edge detection 1 Gpixels/sec 0.11 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 24.9 images/sec 1.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.36 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.04 Gpixels/sec 0.06 Gpixels/sec
HDR 308.4 Mpixels/sec 48.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 238 pages/sec 46.5 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.72 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 330.6 images/sec 15.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 286.6 Mpixels/sec 56.7 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4390.2 FPS 105.3 FPS
Photo processing 98.7 images/sec 11 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.1 Mpixels/sec 2.23 Mpixels/sec
Samples 79 tests 2 tests
Stereo matching 115.4 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
DirectX version 12.1 11
FLOPS 3686.4 Gigaflops 363.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 710 MHz
OpenCL version 3.0 2.0
Pipelines 3 4
Shading units 512 64
Total shaders 1536 256
Vulkan version 1.4 1.0

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Announced September 2025 November 2016
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8850-AC MSM8998
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 official site
Successor — -Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 29.8 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 3840 x 2160
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 2.1
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP9
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Data manipulation score 15949 5696
Phones tested 13 models —
Photo editing score 40273 13302
Video editing score 8052 5841
Web score 16855 5581
Writing score 26073 7633

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 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 —
📘 2023-09-25(Nightshot) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-05-13(Lee) — GeekBench CPU

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
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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