Qualcomm dropped the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and it shares the same TSMC 3nm process as the Elite Gen 5 flagship but apparently gets cooked in gaming benchmarks. A tipster on Weibo says the regular Gen 5 has way less cache on the performance cores compared to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and that might wreck frame rates.
The older Elite chip packs 12MB of L2 cache for its performance cluster while the new Gen 5 only gets 4MB for those cores. The Elite also runs its performance cores at 4.32GHz versus 3.80GHz on the Gen 5. Digital Chat Station claims this cache gap creates a massive performance split when you actually fire up games, even though both chips use cutting-edge manufacturing nodes.
Early AnTuTu scores show the Elite Gen 5 only beats the regular Gen 5 by around 14 percent overall. The non-Elite version might run cooler because of lower clock speeds but gamers looking for peak frame rates will probably want to skip it.
The older Elite chip packs 12MB of L2 cache for its performance cluster while the new Gen 5 only gets 4MB for those cores. The Elite also runs its performance cores at 4.32GHz versus 3.80GHz on the Gen 5. Digital Chat Station claims this cache gap creates a massive performance split when you actually fire up games, even though both chips use cutting-edge manufacturing nodes.
Early AnTuTu scores show the Elite Gen 5 only beats the regular Gen 5 by around 14 percent overall. The non-Elite version might run cooler because of lower clock speeds but gamers looking for peak frame rates will probably want to skip it.
