I benchmarked my first Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 phone and it (almost) lives

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The first flagship smartphones packed with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset are already here. After an impressive showing in a reference phone, we can finally test how Qualcomm’s latest piece of flagship silicon stacks up in retail handsets and whether Qualcomm retains the performance crown for another year.

We have the new Nubia REDMAGIC 11 Pro in for today’s benchmarking session — a dedicated gaming phone boasting advanced cooling, 144Hz display, and up to 24GB of RAM (my model has 16GB). It should represent one of the best implementations of the 8 Elite Gen 5, but we’ll let the results do the talking. I tested with Nubia’s gaming mode enabled and disabled, and obtained higher performance from the latter. In contrast, the gaming mode prioritized lower temperatures and power draw, so I left it disabled.




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