First benchmarks: This is how fast the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is

More power with less power. | Qualcomm presented the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 at this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit, its new high-end SoC for smartphones and tablets. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is Qualcomm’s first chipset manufactured on a 4 nm process and relies on a completely redesigned GPU from the Adreno 700 series. Still, the youngest dragon does not show improvements in all areas.