First Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 benchmarks appear

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is the processor that will end up in most flagship phones of 2022, and it already made its official debut as standalone silicon last week, but now, the first benchmarks of the chip in action have appeared and show us how the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 compares to the Snapdragon 888 and the Apple A15 Bionic.

The most interesting numbers come in the form of Geekbench 5 scores. Geekbench is a cross-platform CPU performance benchmark that gives out two results: one for single-core performance, and another one for multi-core performance. Keep in mind that scores vary ever so slightly between runs, but we are seeing fairly consistent results across the board, so we will just pick one of those and you can see how it compares with Snapdragon 888 devices and Apple A15 Bionic iPhones below:

Snapdgragon 8 Gen 1 CPU Performance Benchmarks

As you can see from these results, the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is more than 10% faster compared to the current Snapdragon 888 in single and multi-core performance. Still, these numbers are not quite the 20% CPU improvement that Qualcomm promised earlier.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 GPU and Gaming Performance

While CPU performance testing did not yield super impressive results, the GPU did and that means that gamers will be in for a treat.