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- A series of benchmarks has shown that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 could beat iPhones for GPU power.
- The benchmarks suggest that CPU gains are still way behind Apple’s phones though.
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset last week, and it’s expected to power a host of Android flagship phones in 2022. The company says you can expect a 20% CPU performance improvement and a 30% boost in GPU performance. Are these figures accurate though?
Well, Hot Hardware got its hands on a prototype engineering handset fitted with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It then ran the phone through a variety of benchmarks, and the GPU-related tests in particular show that it’s competitive with Apple’s iPhone series.
