It’s tempting to fixate on performance when you’re talking about a new chipset like that Snapdragon 8 Elitewhen there are so many other aspects of the mobile experience that the system-on-chip controls. In case Qualcommthe new Snapdragon, which includes everything from the photos you’ll be able to take on Snapdragon 8 Elite-powered devices to the AI ​​experiences enabled by the chipset to how long those phones will last on a charge.

However, performance remains a big part of the Snapdragon 8 Elite story – something Qualcomm is happy to talk about. The new chipset uses a version of the Oryon processor originally released for connected computers, but customized for mobile, and the results are pretty amazing – especially if you like to compare performance numbers to iPhone 16 Pro models and the A18 Pro chipset they run on.

When it announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite earlier this week, Qualcomm released some of its own benchmarks for the new chip and promised to give the latest iPhones a run for their money. According to Qualcomm, the Oryon processor in the Snapdragon 8 Elite offers a 45 percent increase in both single-core and multi-core performance on the Geekbench 6 benchmark compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 — not exactly a loss in the performance department. performance. The Adreno GPU on the new chipset should see a 40% performance boost.

During this week’s Snapdragon Summit, which I’m attending as a company guest, Qualcomm offered a benchmarking session where I was able to check those numbers using a Qualcomm-supplied benchmark device running the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The 6.8-inch reference device runs the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite configuration with a processor that maxes out at 4.32GHz. The device also came with 24GB of RAM.