We were able to run several benchmarks on a smartphone equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 during the Snapdragon Summit. Here are our results.
After the announcement, the first tests. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 promises great things about the smartphones it will equip, but it’s time to put it to the test. During the Snapdragon Summit, we were able to take over Qualcomm’s Reference Design to run a series of benchmarks.
The Reference Design is a smartphone designed and manufactured by Qualcomm which is not intended to be marketed, but which allows in a way to present a robot portrait of a smartphone in a more concrete way than a simple chip on an electronic card. .
The configuration of the smartphone in question was as follows:
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2;
- 2400 x 1080 pixel display;
- 12 GB of RAM;
- 256 GB of storage;
- Android 13.
The results
Here are the tests we ran with the different scores given by the benchmark applications:
- AnTuTu 9.3.0: 1,282,869 points (CPU: 272,079, GPU: 569,037, MEM: 246,120, UX: 195,633);
- PCMark Work 3.0: 18,839 points;
- 3DMark Wild Life: 13,610 points (81.5 FPS);
- GFXBench Aztec Ruins Vulkan (High tier) 1440P: 65 FPS.
It should be noted that the smartphone was configured in performance mode, which increases its results in tests.
We can see a nice increase in performance compared to the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 which obtained with the Zenfone 9 a score of 1,085,542 points. This represents an increase of 18% over half a generation, which is far from negligible.
Faced with competition, Qualcomm is doing with honors in its first tests. Indeed, we measured an average of 58.8 FPS on 3DMark Wild Life with the iPhone 14 Pro Max, far exceeded by the 91.5 FPS obtained on this Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Qualcomm therefore quite clearly dethrones the performance of the Apple chips. At least on the GPU part, because let’s remember, the iPhone 14 was to continue to supplant the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on CPU performance, whether in single or multi-core.
Still on the graphic part, we were not able to test the capacities in ray tracing of the chip, because no benchmark on the market is compatible with the mobile. It will be necessary to wait for an update of GFXBench or 3DMark to hope to test this element and to raise the performances. In the meantime, only a demo from Oppo allows the general public to get a glimpse of the potential of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in this exercise.
These first results of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 are very encouraging. Now let’s wait to be able to test it in more concrete conditions for the consumer, that is to say on really marketed smartphones. We can then also better measure its control of heating and the consumption of the chip. It was one of the good surprises of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. Note also that some are predicting a version overclocked 8 Gen 2 on the Galaxy S23. It promises.
NB: Our reporter Cassim Ketfi is in Hawaii to cover the Snapdragon Summit 2022 as part of a press trip organized by Qualcomm.
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