Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Unisoc T820

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (97/100)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Unisoc T820 (33/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Why choose Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5:
  • + Higher DeviceBenchmark Score score (97 vs 33)
  • + Higher Performance score (99 vs 32)

Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
DeviceBenchmark Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 33.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 32.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Graphics test 20 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 46 FPS —
Section 3 40 FPS —
Stability 67% 96%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Yes

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
CPU 1112833 262223
GPU 1494722 57118
Memory 442350 290052
Total score 3950082 757199
UX 900177 147806

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Architecture 2x 4.61 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Prime6x 3.63 GHz – Oryon Gen 3 Performance 1x 2.7 GHz – Cortex-A763x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A764x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2700 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 12 MB —
L3 cache 12 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 6 nanometers

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 15
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.0
Download speed Up to 12500 Mbps —
Modem Snapdragon X85 Makalu IVY510
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps —
Wi-Fi 7 5

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
API Vulkan OpenCL
Asset compression 421.8 MB/sec 117.9 MB/sec
Background blur 40.7 images/sec 7.47 images/sec
Edge detection 1 Gpixels/sec 0.15 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 24.9 images/sec 1.59 images/sec
Feature matching 0.36 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.04 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
HDR 308.4 Mpixels/sec 68.5 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 238 pages/sec 56.1 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.72 Gpixels/sec 0.1 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 330.6 images/sec 41.5 images/sec
PDF Renderer 286.6 Mpixels/sec 86.2 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4390.2 FPS 390.3 FPS
Photo processing 98.7 images/sec 20.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.1 Mpixels/sec 3.5 Mpixels/sec
Samples 79 tests 3 tests
Stereo matching 115.4 Gpixels/sec 6.45 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
DirectX version 12.1 —
FLOPS 3686.4 Gigaflops 199.7 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1200 MHz 780 MHz
OpenCL version 3.0 2.0
Pipelines 3 4
Shading units 512 32
Total shaders 1536 128
Vulkan version 1.4 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Announced September 2025 November 2022
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number SM8850-AC —
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 official site Unisoc T820 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 17.07 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 32 GB
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 2133 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 3440 x 1440
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 3.1
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9 - H.264- H.265
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Data manipulation score 15949 8739
Phones tested 13 models Less than 3
Photo editing score 40273 25271
Video editing score 8052 7072
Web score 16855 13579
Writing score 26073 15437

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-08-19->2295031556Leon AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Ilya) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24(q_l8) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-24->Ang3L4D AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Edwin3q) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(Hüseyn Alizade) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(erosado-pr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-25(freqr) AnTuTu —
📘 2024-11-20(Chico Fico) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-02-09(FilmEXETH) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-09-21(Hakuna matata) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-10-29(Aнyap) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Unisoc T820
1.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro Plus 4716234 —
10.Honor Magic 8 4037547 —
2.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11S Pro 4678468 —
3.Vivo iQOO 15 Ultra 4602290 —
4.Vivo X300 Ultra 4247433 —
5.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro Plus 4244509 —
6.Oppo Find X9 Ultra 4231988 —
7.Honor Robot Phone 4166339 —
8.Honor Magic V6 4166339 —
9.ZTE Nubia Red Magic 11 Pro 4117238 —
Phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 AnTuTu v11 —
1.ZTE Nubia Neo 2 — 757199
Phones with Unisoc T820 — AnTuTu v11

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