The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is a flagship chipset announced in November 2022. It’s an octa-core chip with a powerful CPU and GPU that delivers excellent performance, even with demanding applications and games. There are dozens of phones out there powered by this Qualcomm chip from multiple brands such as Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus, and more.
This Snapdragon 8-series chip is fabricated using TSMC’s highly efficient 4nm process node. The CPU has a total of eight cores, with a peak frequency of up to 3.2GHz. The GPU is Adreno 740, which is capable of handling demanding games, like Genshin Impact, Fortnite, and Call of Duty: Mobile. Here, we’ll look at performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset on popular benchmarks including AnTuTu and Geekbench.
[Note: The following benchmark tests have been conducted on the iQOO Neo 9 Pro, powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.]
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 AnTuTu score
AnTuTu is a widely used benchmarking tool that measures a device’s CPU, GPU, memory, and user experience (UX) performance through a series of tests. It evaluates processing power, graphics rendering, multitasking efficiency, and overall system responsiveness. The final AnTuTu score represents the overall performance of a device.
On AnTuTu v10, the iQOO Neo 9 Pro, powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, scored an impressive 1.6 million+ AnTuTu points. As for the breakdown, the CPU gets 387038 points, GPU gets 612954 points, memory gets 306124, and UX gets 303647 points.
| AnTuTu score | 1,609,763 |
| CPU | 387,038 |
| GPU | 612,954 |
| Memory | 306,124 |
| UX | 303,647 |
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Geekbench score
Geekbench evaluates CPU performance by running a series of tasks and outputs single-core and multi-core scores. The single-core score reflects the performance of a single CPU core, while the multi-core score measures the performance when all cores work together.
On Geekbench v6, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered iQOO Neo 9 Pro scored 2,012 points in the single-core test and 5,461 points in the multi-core test.
| Geekbench 6 | |
| Single core | 2,012 |
| Multi core | 5,461 |
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 3DMark score
3DMark is a popular gaming benchmarking tool that evaluates the graphics capabilities of devices by rendering a demanding game-like scene.
Here are the 3DMark scores for iQOO Neo 9 Pro powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 2:
| 3DMark scores | |
| Wild Life (1440p) | 12,961 |
| Wild Life Extreme (2160p) | 3,342 |
| Solar Bay (1440p) | 4,879 |
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 spec sheet
| SD 8 Gen 2 | |
|---|---|
| Announced | November 2022 |
| Process node | 4nm |
| Manufacturer | TSMC |
| CPU | 1 x 3.2GHz — Cortex-X3 2 x 2.8GHz — Cortex-A715 2 x 2.8GHz — Cortex-A710 3 x 2GHz — Cortex-A510 |
| GPU | Adreno 740 GPU Hardware accelerated ray tacing Snapdragon Elite Gaming features |
| NPU | Qualcomm Hexagon NPU |
| Memory | LPDDR5x, up to 4.2GHz |
| Storage | UFS 4.0 |
| USB | USB Type-C version 3.1 |
| Camera | Spectra triple 18-bit ISPs Up to 200MP single camera Up to 108MP single camera with zero shutter lag Up to 8K/30fps or 4K/120fps video recording |
| Connectivity | Snapdragon X70 5G modem Downlink: 10Gbps Uplink: 3.5Gbps Wi-Fi 7 (peak speed: 5.8Gbps) Bluetooth 5.3 |
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