Top 10 stand-out features of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor

Early benchmarks suggest the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC is as powerful as the Apple A15 Bionic

Apple launched the A15 Bionic chip earlier this September with the iPhone 13 family as it usually does, but we are yet to see Qualcomm's competing solution, the Snapdragon 8…

December 10, 2021
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Apple launched the A15 Bionic chip earlier this September with the iPhone 13 family as it usually does, but we are yet to see Qualcomm’s competing solution, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

Early benchmark results are now out and they suggest that the hype around the new SoC’s new Adreno GPU may be justified.

Renowned tipster IceUniverse shared a couple of screenshots displaying how Apple’s A15 Bionic and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 are trading blows in multiple GPU tests.

There has been no statistically meaningful difference in the GFXBench T Rex offscreen test but in the Manhattan offscreen ES 3.0 test, Qualcomm’s contender got 267 frames, nearly 24% higher than Apple silicon.

In the 3DMark Wild Life Unlimited run, though, the Snapdragon got a 12% lower score.

This is the first time in a while that Qualcomm’s chip may be able to match Apple’s hardware and even beat it in terms of sheer processing power.

But of course, there is a need for more tests to say for sure if the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip will beat Apple for the first place as the best chipset.

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