realme has confirmed that the GT 8 Pro will be launched in Malaysia, seemingly suggesting that it will be the first device in the country to feature Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. If confirmed, this would be the second consecutive GT series flagship to debut Qualcomm’s latest flagship chipset in Malaysia, following the realme GT 7 Pro in 2024.
realme GT 8 Pro ft. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
This new Snapdragon 8 chipset has a rather confusing naming, to say the least. You would expect the succeeding product of the Snapdragon 8 Elite to follow mathematical convention and simply be named “Elite Gen 2”, but instead we get a whole blog post from the company with tons of corporate-sounding marketing yada-yada justifying the decision of bringing a whole new name then somehow readopts the numbering system from before. Credit where it’s due, at least it was an effort to align the entire mobile portfolio to stay on the same generation numbering.
In any case, here’s what constructs the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5: it’s built on TSMC’s N3P 3nm-class process, while the same 2P+6E core layout now packs updated Oyron cores with clock speeds reaching 4.61GHz. When paired with the realme GT 8 Pro smartphone, it has recorded an AnTuTu score exceeding 4,000,000 points, which is a big jump over the fastest Snapdragon 8 Elite scores at around 3,000,000 points.
The smartphone will also integrate realme’s Hyper Vision+ AI Chip and GT BOOST 3.0 energy efficiency scheduling system, and the company claims it can run two resource-intensive games, such as PUBG and Genshin Impact, simultaneously at high frame rates for up to an hour. I doubt anyone play games this way, but if these people exist, there you go.
While no official specs of the phone has been revealed beyond the chipset itself, leaks got us covered: it’ll include a 6.78-inch display, 8,000mAh battery, and there’s even a co-branding from Japanese electronics company Ricoh, which does have its camera division to most likely assist in realme’s camera development. On that note, leaked images discovered by GSMArena – which aligned with the official teaser post – shows the rather oddly-shaped camera bump. Expect more numbers to be revealed in the coming weeks leading up to the launch.
Pokdepinion: That is a seriously high clock speed for an ARM-based chip.
