Qualcomm only just unveiled the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 as its latest flagship mobile SoC, and although there were early Geekbench results presented at the Snapdragon Summit event, the first real-world performance figures are starting to emerge, courtesy of the as-yet unreleased OnePlus 15. These tests, carried out by Geekerwan on YouTube mostly center around the Adreno 840 GPU in the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which is meant to deliver marked performance improvements, thanks to the inclusion of Snapdragon HPM (High Performance Memory) cache and updated GPU architecture. It's also important to note that these performance results won't necessarily be representative of results on other smartphones, since thermal management is a big determining factor for smartphone performance, especially when it comes to gaming and sustained workloads. The OnePlus device in question is also running pre-release drivers and firmware, so it's possible that more optimizations and performance gains are coming.

The YouTuber tested the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 across five different games (Honkai: Impact 3rd, Wuthering Waves, Honor of Kings, and Delta Force) and compared it to an iPhone 17 Pro Max and a MediaTek Dimensity 9500. The results are rather impressive, as the new Snapdragon SoC manages to keep up with the Apple A19 Pro in the iPhone 17 Pro Max for the most part. He also performed his own Geekbench 6 tests and found that the results presented on Qualcomm's test devices at the Snapdragon Summit were representative of retail devices, with the OnePlus 15 scoring 12,352 points in the multicore benchmark and 3,836 in single-core tests.
Test results for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:

• Honkai Impact 3rd: 59.60 FPS (1680 × 770), 36 FPS 1% lows, 5.88 W; 59.4 FPS (2160 × 991), 28.2 FPS 1% lows, 7.33 W
• Wuthering Waves: 59.8 FPS, 29.3 FPS 1% lows, 5.13 W
• Honor of Kings: 119.9 FPS (FPS limiter hit), 119.0 FPS 1% lows, 3.47 W
• Delta Force: 164.9 FPS, 148.8 FPS 1% lows, 4.7 W

What's also notable is that the 8 Elite managed to deliver decent sustained performance and 1% lows while consistently operating more efficiently than almost all the other devices—in tests where the Apple A19 Pro was involved, it was the only SoC that traded blows with the 8 Elite Gen 5 when it comes to power draw.