Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 disappoints in early real gaming tests

 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is Qualcomm's most powerful chipset to date. At least on paper, gaming tests have shown that the chipset cannot keep up in terms of sustained performance because it succumbed to high temperatures, high power consumption, and significant throttling of less than five minutes.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is Qualcomm's latest and best flagship chipset to date. It already faces fierce competition from MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and the upcoming Exynos 2200, but it may not be up to the task, at least if the early game tests are still available.

According to Golden Reviewer's test, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 on the Motorola Edge X30 showed an incredible display effect in the 10-minute Genshin Impact test. Sources regularly test new chipsets to gain a deeper understanding of the continued performance of the real world. Recently, Google's Tensor has also disappointed.

In the test, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 had a strong start, providing about 60 FPS in the first few minutes. However, after a little more than two minutes, its performance dropped for the first time, as low as 43 FPS. In the first half of the test, it managed to average about 53 FPS while consuming about 8.7 W. In the second half of the test, in most cases, the phone maintained an average of 48 FPS, but it was usually less than 40 frames per second. The power consumption during this period is a more reasonable 6.3 W. In terms of temperature, Moto Edge X30 has a temperature of 46°C in its hottest area.

Although the performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is not as good as Google Tensor, it should be built on the latest architecture, so either way it is disappointing. During the 10-minute test, FPS dropped by as much as 40%, which made the performance quite disappointing. Judging from most available tests, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 lags behind Dimensity 9000, thanks to MediaTek's chipset for having TSMC's outstanding nodes.