The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 establishes a new benchmark for top-tier Android chipsets, and what’s interesting about the current figures is that Qualcomm’s newest SoC did so while running at default clock settings. Vivo’s X90 Pro Plus was detected on Geekbench 5 running the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with Ice Universe remarking on his tweet that this version’s Cortex-X3 CPU was running at 3.20GHz.
The frequency is somewhat lower than that of the overlocked SoC, which runs at 3.36GHz. Even so, this chipset sets a new benchmark by breaking the 5,000-point barrier in the benchmarking app’s multi-core test run, with a score of 5,106.
Qualcomm still has to improve single-core performance, which continues to underwhelm us, but the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 impresses us when it comes to multi-core workloads.
These findings may be attributable to the silicon’s new ‘1 + 4 + 3’ CPU cluster, which now employs four gold cores running at 2.80GHz to attain this high score.
What’s notable about this conclusion is that, even at default clock speeds, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in the X90 Pro Plus outperforms the one in the Galaxy S23 Ultra. Previously, the same benchmark programme revealed that Samsung’s flagship had the same SoC, but its Cortex-X3 ran at 3.36GHz rather than 3.20GHz. On paper, this should make the Galaxy S23 Ultra speedier, yet the device achieves a lower multi-core score than the X90 Pro Plus.
It is likely that Samsung is attempting to slow the CPU on purpose in order to extend the battery’s lifespan, as greater heat may limit the cell’s capacity to keep its maximum charge level for a longer period of time.
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