Snapdragon 8 Elite vs iPhone 16 Pro: Peak Performance & Sustained Performance

In this video I dive into the peak performance numbers and the sustained performance numbers for the Realme GT 7 Pro, one of the first phones released with the new Snapdragon 8 Elite. I compare its results to a couple of phones from last year (with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) and with the iPhone 16 Pro.
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[shiba]

It would be interesting comparing it with the dimensity 9400 when both are available

Samsung Dex and similar functionality starts to be really useful with this kind of performance. Imagine the phone being able be docked to external screen, keyboard and mouse at work and home there should soon be something usable as a desktop computer.

[searklarak]

Hi Gary, any feedback and news on power consumption between these two SoCs?

[robertlawrence]

Interesting and impressive performance it seems. Maybe these chips need a better thermal solution. Perhaps an all aluminum back to help with heat dissipation.

[artim]

Also worth mentioning: the Realme costs like half of the 16 Pro. A comparably priced phone might fare even better, as more money could be spent on improving thermal design and maybe some software side tweaks.

[lexview]

I just ran Geekbench on the 16 Pro Max and got 8759 MC and 3541 SC, would that be down to more favourable thermals due to the larger form factor?

[ultravisitors]

Damn! 3011 on single core? I get like 3080 on my 7900X, are these scores even comparable between x86 and ARM?

[dennish]

Hey Gary, any idea if we will be seeing similar performance improvements in the midrange Snapdragon chips to follow the 8 Elite?

[heliosak]

Snapdragon is finally getting things right. 🎉

[morselrafez]

What is the connection of temperature with the graph??
I could not read both the score and the temperature at the same time.
I may be missing something, or the graph is made wrongly.
Including proper Starting and End temperature would have been very useful as some brands like to keep thermal throttling at higher temperature, resulting in better sustainability but a burning experience.

[akarimsiddiqui]

I liked the sustained performance charts. Hopefully, we can get a chart that shows sustained performance with temperature, # cores and frequency normalized to compare single core improvements from last gen.

[Deo-vz]

5:05, you didn't compare it to Xiaomi 14 Ultra as it is clearly beating SD 8 Elite. Review is biased a little but is good overall.

[sarthakyadava]

I'm actually happy for the CPU gains specially in the single core department where apple was always way ahead

[ThePowerLover]

You need to test them in 3DMark Steel Nomad Light, it's way more representative of heavy graphics performance.

[xperiafan]

9:14 You forgot to mention that Realme admitted it to be a software issue and promised to fix the crashes and random temp spikes with an update.

[Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Thanks, Gary. I don't keep tabs on things all the time, but last time I checked, Apple was mopping the floor with other SoCs. So glad that they're cruising right past Tim the Bean Counter now. As is evident via the M4, they had all the means to create a proper sibling for a phone, but simply chose not to because $$$. So glad I skipped the 15s.

[ThomasBrowne-bfzi]

Ooh another "anytime now" flapwagon will fly video.

[Nemesis_]

Sir Gary plz use 3D mark steel nomad light for GPU tests in the future. Wildlife extreme isn't so cross platform. Although apple still loses 😌😌. Read somewhere its more closer to desktop grade and whatnot.

[MukeshKumar-izhz]

Before watching.. i believe this would gonna be the toughest one in comparison over past few yrs!

[alexanderleitner]

While this tests are great, is RayTracing really comparable? I mean we all know, how normal rendering is performed, but is the RayTracing technology the same standard? We all know, it's a compromise between accuracy and speed, therefore it can be tweaked allot. It's an uncountable infinite problem.