Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Crushes Benchmarks With Big Gains
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 differentiates from its non-Extreme variant with a more powerful GPU that can leverage Adreno Neural Fusion; more on that in a bit. For now, we're going to jump straight into our benchmarks for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
First up is full-system benchmark AnTuTu, which showcases one of the most impressive scores. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 scores a whopping 5621072 across the entire benchmark, outscoring the last-gen Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5's 4431036 by roughly 21%. It's not the last big win for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme SoC, but in some tests it does place closer to its contemporaries.
In Geekbench 6, the single-threaded score jumps up by 13-14% over last-generation to deliver one of the highest single-threaded results we've ever seen. The multi-threaded score is more similar to last-generation, though.
In Browserbench Speedometer 3.1, we see incredible performance with a score that leaves even high-powered desktop machines in the dust. Browser performance is almost entirely about platform memory latency and single-threaded instruction latency, so smartphones actually have an advantage here, but this result is fully 26% faster than the previous-generation parts. Insane work here.
Qualcomm claimed enormous gains in GPU performance when it announced these processors. We were able to run a few 3DMark benchmarks on the test platform to see how it held up. See for yourself:
Of the results, the cutting-edge 3DMark Steel Nomad benchmark best showcases what Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 has to offer, at least in terms of pure GPU muscle. However, the new part does well in the Solar Bay ray-tracing test, too. In Wild Life, performance was a little underwhelming, but this could be down to the lightweight nature of this benchmark. We'll have to start testing with Wild Life Extreme on this new class of ultra-high-end mobile devices.
Last but not least, there's also the AI and machine learning performance of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Qualcomm's new Hexagon NPU is intended to run AI models locally, on the device, and Qualcomm also boasts up to 50% higher prefill performance versus last gen.
Across the board, then, we're looking at some truly impressive generational gains from Qualcomm here. While we'll need to wait to get products in our hands to provide finalized numbers on gaming and other workloads, the prototype hardware here at the Summit offers big promises for devices (like Motorola's upcoming signature 27) based around this silicon.
