At first glance, it offers “only” a 200MHz peak in peak performance, which is pretty easy to spot. But Qualcomm cited huge improvements in efficiency, and that’s where the Plus’s strength really lies.
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 benchmark results
Benchmark | Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 (test device) | Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (Galaxy S22 Ultra) |
---|---|---|
GFXBench Car Chase on screen | 83 | 85 |
GFXBench Manhattan 3.1 on screen | 139 | 119 |
Geekbench 5 Single Core | 1313 | 1242 |
Geekbench 5 Multi-Core | 4147 | 3538 |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test (Highest) | 2788 | 2551 |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test (Lowest) | 1928 | 1226 |
The most interesting results always come from 3DMark’s Wild Life Extreme stress test. That’s a tough yardstick and the goal isn’t to show us which phone can play it smoothly. No, no, it is specially designed to torture the device through 20 loops of a very heavy graphics environment.

And the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 not only slightly outperformed the non-Plus, it also took a long time to throttle (all the way to loop 16).
Now, this test isn’t entirely fair – the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is being put in a retail Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra here, and it’s clear that Samsung has tuned its phones to stay cool and save battery. While the test platform with the 8+ Gen 1 is made to push the processor. However, the test does show us what is possible with the new chip.
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 in real life

With the game settings, you can only go as high as ExtremeHD settings if you want 60 FPS. I turned this on, then enabled anti-aliasing and bloom and just jumped in. I’d say the performance was extremely smooth – the only hiccups happened when the game was loading in textures while I was jumping on the map or while zooming in at a wide range – I’d say those have to do with game optimization. Apex Mobile is still quite fresh.
And yes, the phone got warm, although not really hot. But if I wanted to push the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 to its limits on a daily basis, I would look for a device with a cooling accessory or a very well-developed internal cooling system.
As for battery life, I was really impressed with how well it held up, both while torturing benchmarks and making my way through the battle arena.