While the latest chip won’t officially hit smartphones for a few months, Geekbench scores for the chip have already been spotted on an unreleased Android device. According to the results (via DealNTech), the latest Snapdragon 8 chip scored 1483 in single-core and 4709 in multi-core. The A16 Bionic scored 1874 in single-core and 5372 in multi-core. For comparison, the A15 Bionic chip, found in the lower-end iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 14 models, also scored higher than Qualcomm’s latest chip with 1709 in single-core compared to 1483. In a press release about the new chip, Qualcomm said it will “set a new standard for connected computing, intelligently designed with breakthrough artificial intelligence across the board to enable exceptional experiences.” Qualcomm’s senior vice president and general manager of mobile phones, Chris Patrick, said: “Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will revolutionize the flagship smartphone landscape in 2023.” Compared to the first-generation Snapdragon 8 chip, Qualcomm says the newer platform offers a 35% increase in CPU performance, a 25% increase in GPU performance, and an increase in power efficiency. In 2020, Apple’s A14 Bionic chip and even the A13 Bionic chip from last year outperformed Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chip that was released in Android devices last year. Performance claims made by Apple during the iPhone 14 Pro keynote in September The A16 Bionic chip in the iPhone 14 Pro, like the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, is built on TSMC’s 4nm process and offers improved performance and energy efficiency. The A16 Bionic chip has 16 billion transistors, a 6-core CPU, a 5-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. “The competition is still working to match the performance of the A13, which we first introduced with the iPhone 11 three years ago,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, during the Apple event in September.
