Realme GT7 Pro’s Snapdragon 8 Elite performance examined

The Snapdragon 8 Elite represents a new hope in the mobile field – it’s the first chipset in a long while that has custom CPU cores (and isn’t coming out of Apple). The GPU is all custom too and a new generation to boot. And Qualcomm found a way to boost the clock speed higher than any other smartphone chipset by quite some margin. It all looks great on paper, let’s see whether expectations meet reality.

Here we will focus on how the 8 Elite compares against the two previous generations of Snapdragon 8-series. We are working on a separate post that will pit the Elite against its chief…