Qualcomm’s newest mid-range mobile platform has surfaced in an early benchmark listing, offering the first glimpse of real-world performance for the chip expected to power a wave of affordable 5G devices later this year. The Snapdragon 6 Gen 5, unveiled by the company more than a month ago as the direct successor to the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4, appeared on Geekbench inside an unreleased Honor handset.
First Geekbench appearance inside an Honor device
The benchmark entry identifies the test device as an Honor model carrying the internal designation “BSN-AN00,” a code that aligns with regulatory filings for the Honor X80 Pro Max. The listing shows the handset running Android 16 with 8 GB of memory, suggesting the chip will pair with modern software and adequate RAM in at least one mid-range configuration. On the graphics side, the platform includes an Adreno 812 GPU, which Qualcomm has positioned as a notable step forward from the previous generation.
CPU scores mirror last year’s silicon
In terms of raw CPU performance, the figures present a surprisingly flat generational picture. The Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 produced a single-core score of 1,095 and a multi-core score of 3,355. These results land almost exactly where the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 sits: the Honor Magic 8 Lite, built around that older chip, recorded scores of 1,112 (single-core) and 3,124 (multi-core) in comparable testing. The near-identical Geekbench results indicate that users should not expect a meaningful boost to everyday processing speed over the model it replaces.
A generational gap closes on the graphics side
Where the new platform attempts to differentiate itself is in graphical capability. Qualcomm states the Adreno 812 delivers roughly 20 percent more performance than the Adreno 810 found inside the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4. This improvement could translate into smoother gaming and better handling of visually intensive applications, even if CPU-bound tasks remain essentially unchanged. With Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 17 Pro 5G among the devices anticipated to adopt the Snapdragon 6 Gen 5, the chip will soon face wider scrutiny as it moves from early benchmarks into finished consumer products across the competitive mid-range segment.
Source: browser.geekbench.com