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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 now has a less powerful sibling in the form of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, with the latest SoC sharing various attributes with the flagship chipset, such as TSMC’s 3nm ‘N3P’ process, a similar CPU cluster, and more. While you might assume that this makes the newest silicon sit just a tier below the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the difference may be a little more pronounced, because the tipster says that there will be some variation in the cache size between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and the older Snapdragon 8 Elite. This can have a drastic effect in one category, which is gaming.
The previous-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite has three times more cache for the performance cores compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, which could result in a ‘day and night’ difference in gaming
Some additional details were shared by Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station, who implies that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s advanced lithography will not give it an edge against the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which sports 12MB of L2 cache for the performance and efficiency cores cluster, along with 8MB of L3 System-Level Cache (SLC). The rumor doesn’t highlight the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s L3 cache, but says that the latter has 4MB of L2 cache for the performance cores cluster and 12MB of L2 cache for the efficiency cores.
Comparing the numbers, the older Snapdragon 8 Elite features three times more L2 cache for the performance cores cluster, not to mention that these operate at a default frequency of 4.32GHz, whereas the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s performance cores run at 3.80GHz. Until a certain point, clock speeds won’t benefit a game’s framerate, but that cache size can make all the difference in the world. In a follow-up rumor, the tipster says that he has high hopes for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s performance, despite next year’s SoC’s GPU being weaker than the one paired with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro.
While there are no current comparisons where we can confirm the tipster’s claims, a previous AnTuTu benchmark run on the OnePlus Ace 6T revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen Elite Gen 5 is only 14 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. Additionally, Qualcomm markets its latest SoC as being able to run games at a maximum of 165FPS in supported titles, so it must have sufficient horsepower that phone makers contemplate using it.
Sadly, we have to treat the latest claim with a pinch of salt, at least until we come across some gaming benchmark comparisons. At most, we expect the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 to run cooler than the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Snapdragon 8 Elite due to its slower clock speeds, which can prevent unnecessary thermal throttling and allow for games to maintain a consistent framerate.
News Source: Digital Chat Station
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