Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Qualcomm

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

Frequency

4610 MHz

3000 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

1792 KB

—

L2 cache

24 MB

1 MB

L3 cache

8 MB

Process

3 nm

4 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

TDP

—

6 W

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 840

Adreno 735

GPU frequency

1200 MHz

1100 MHz

Shading units

512

256

Execution units

—

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

12.1

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Memory frequency

—

4200 MHz

Max bandwidth

—

67.2 Gbit/s

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Max camera resolution

1x 320MP

1x 200MP

Video capture

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9

Audio codecs

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

—

Hexagon

Max display resolution

—

3840 x 2160

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

LTE Cat. 22

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Download speed

—

Up to 6500 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 3500 Mbps

Info

Announced

Sep 2025

Mar 2024

Class

Flagship

Model number

SM8850

SM8635

Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,115,282

1,490,645

Geekbench 6

3,834

2,019

Geekbench 6

12,396

5,570

FP32 (float)

3,686

1,689

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.