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- First Snapdragon 8 benchmarks show Qualcomm’s CPU still trails Apple
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Wednesday, 8 December 2021

Another year, another Qualcomm flagship chip that’s sure to power the majority of Android phones in the coming year. This time around though, the company decided to do things a little differently, renaming its flagship processor with the ostensibly simpler Snapdragon 8 (Gen 1) moniker and talking up gains in the processor’s performance. Alas, it still seems Qualcomm is trailing well behind Apple when it comes to raw CPU performance, at least according to a few early benchmarks. Still, the GPU results are encouraging and here’s reason to be optimistic about the future. PCMag‘s benchmarks, which include Geekbench 5, PCMark…
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