Qualcomm has been dropping new chipsets one after another this year. Yesterday, the company announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC . It is a non-Elite variant that promises to offer great performance over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC from 2023. The specs on paper hints that the new SoC just sits below the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. However, a new claim hints that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip has a disadvantage when it comes to gaming .
Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s smaller cache may put it at a disadvantage in the gaming department
In a Weibo post , Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station (DCS), claims that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC comes with noticeably lesser cache than the Snapdragon 8 Elite. For this very reason, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC could face a real disadvantage in gaming performance.
To compare, the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC comes with a default frequency of up to 4.32GHz against the 8 Gen 5’s 3.80GHz. Since clock speed only helps framerates up to a limit while cache size continues to matter, comparing both becomes important. Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC comes with 3x more L2 cache for its performance cores and 8MB of L3 System-Level Cache (SLC).
The tipster hasn’t mentioned anything about the L3 cache. However, he claims that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 comes with 4MB of L2 cache for the performance cluster and 12MB of L2 cache for the efficiency cores. That’s where the disadvantages start to show. At this point, there are no comparisons available to prove the tipster’s claims.
Qualcomm’s claim and benchmarks says otherwise
An AnTuTu benchmark run on the OnePlus Ace 6T hinted that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC is only 14 percent faster than the new SoC. That’s not all; tech giant says that the latest SoC supports playing games at 165 FPS in supported titles. From these details, we are assuming that it’s still great for gamers out there. As with every claim, we want to take this one also with a pinch of salt. We can only confirm the claims once benchmark comparisons are in.
