Snapdragon 8 Elite Performance Cores Were Demonstrated To Run At 4.57GHz Instead Of The Default 4.32GHz, Allowing It To Match The A18 Pro In Single-Core Scores

Qualcomm previously detailed the specifications of the Snapdragon 8 Elite, stating that the newest chipset’s custom performance cores could reach a clock speed of 4.32GHz. The company made no mention that these in-house Oryon could run beyond their default frequencies, but it appears that it is a possibility. The San Diego firm demonstrated this in a new Geekbench 6 benchmarking run, with its single-core results now matching the A18 Pro. As for the multi-core results, they are even higher than before, as the silicon’s Oryon cores now run at 4.57GHz.

Increased clock speeds help Snapdragon 8 Elite to achieve new multi-core results, not that they were low previously

Earlier, a reference design of the Snapdragon 8 Elite was tested at its default clock speeds of 4.32GHz, and while its single-core results continued to trail behind Apple’s A18 Pro, it achieved the highest multi-core score for a smartphone with 10,617 points, beating other competing Android SoCs by up to 47 percent. The latest feat was shown by Nicolas La Rocco, showing that the two performance cores belonging to the Snapdragon 8 Elite were operating at 4.57GHz, while the six efficiency ones remained at 3.53GHz.

When running Geekbench 6, the Snapdragon 8 Elite with the overclocked performance cores achieves unprecedented results, attaining a single-core score of 3,407, with the multi-core figure even higher at 10,875. When we compared the single-core results with the A18 Pro on