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[QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 73433, member: 636"]
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.
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