A18 Pro Offers The Best ‘Performance Per Watt’ Metric In Single-Core Results, As Snapdragon 8 Elite Fails To Beat Its Newest Rival In One Particular Test

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is currently the fastest smartphone chipset in Geekbench 6’s multi-core results, which is a major deal because it has been years since Apple has finally met its match. However, the same benchmarking application reveals that Qualcomm’s latest and greatest SoC continues to lag behind the A18 Pro when it comes to power efficiency and single core results.

Snapdragon 8 Elite consumes slightly higher power than the A18 Pro but posts a lower score in Geekbench 6’s single-core results

The tests performed by the YouTube channel Aifu Technology ran various tests to showcase the Snapdragon 8 Elite’s capabilities, but one area that caught our eye in particular was when Geekbench 6’s single-core results were displayed. Apple has always maintained a lead in this category, and this year is no different because the A18 Pro obtained a score of 3,413 points while its power draw was at 6.6W. When testing the reference design of the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the latter is only 5.5 percent slower as it garnered 3,233 points.

Unfortunately, regarding power efficiency, the Snapdragon 8 Elite loses to the A18 Pro by just a fraction with a power draw of 6.9W. It appears that mass producing both chipsets on TSMC’s 3nm ‘N3E’ node meant that they would sport nearly the same power consumption in one test. Given that the power draw difference is of 4.5 percent, we are willing to conclude that this figure is within the margin of error, and when tested in commercial smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Elite may achieve the same power draw as the A18 Pro.

It is important to note that the reference design is running the Snapdragon 8 Elite’s performance cores at their maximum clock of 4.32GHz, which will obviously result in a higher power consumption. We have witnessed in previous benchmark results that the Oryon cores were tested at 4.20GHz when the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s scores allegedly leaked, so it will be interesting to view the power draw when lowering the frequencies. Unfortunately, we do not have this data with us at this time, but we will provide updates and see if reducing clock speeds improves the Snapdragon 8 Elite’s ‘performance per watt’ metrics.

News Source: Aifu Technology