Snapdragon 8 Elite 7-Core Cluster 14% Slower Than Overclocked 8-Core Variant

A recent Geekbench 6 comparison highlights a performance difference between two versions of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. The 7-core cluster variant shows a notable performance decrease in multi-core tasks compared to the 8-core overclocked version. Two Snapdragon 8 Elite Configurations Qualcomm is offering two Snapdragon 8 Elite variants: one with an 8-core CPU cluster, and a new version with a 7-core cluster. The 7-core variant was recently benchmarked in the OPPO Find N5 foldable smartphone. While both variants have the same performance and efficiency core clock speeds of 4.32GHz and 3.53GHz, respectively, the core count difference does lead to a performance gap. Geekbench 6 Results The OPPO Find N5, featuring the 7-core Snapdragon 8 Elite, achieved a multi-core score of 8,865 on Geekbench 6. This is approximately 14 percent lower than the score of the 8-core overclocked version, whose performance cores run at a higher 4.47GHz. The single-core scores were within expecte…