Moto Edge 70 Ultra Spotted with Unreleased Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Chip

Qualcomm has not yet fully introduced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, but several details about the new chipset are now public. Most notably, this processor will be the first standard Snapdragon chip to feature Qualcomm’s custom Oryon cores, moving away from the familiar ARM Cortex architecture.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 recently appeared in Geekbench listings inside the Motorola XT2603-1, a device widely believed to be the Moto Edge 70 Ultra or the Moto X70 Ultra in China. Benchmark data from this phone shows a single-core score of approximately 2,600 and a multi-core result close to 7,500.

GeekBench Scores

This performance places the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 ahead of the previous Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which averages 2,100 to 2,200 in single-core and about 6,500 to 6,600 in multi-core scores. However, it remains a step below Qualcomm’s Elite chip series, where the Snapdragon 8 Elite records between 3,000 and 3,100 for single-core and 8,700 to 9,800 for multi-core tasks.

The latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 reaches even higher, with single-core results up to 3,600 and multi-core scores as high as 11,000, although these numbers can vary depending on the device.

The Geekbench listing also identifies the device’s GPU as an Adreno 829. This model sits between the Adreno 825 found in the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and the Adreno 830 included in the Snapdragon 8 Elite, according to Qualcomm’s current graphics lineup. No direct GPU performance data is available from Geekbench.

Further details from the benchmark reveal that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 in the Moto Edge 70 Ultra includes two prime CPU cores running at 3.65GHz and six performance cores clocked at 3.32GHz. The device in question is paired with 16GB of RAM and runs on Android 16.

Motorola has not announced a launch date for the Edge 70 Ultra or X70 Ultra. The Moto Edge 70, also known as the X70 Air in some markets, was introduced recently as the first model in this generation. More information about the upcoming flagship’s release is expected soon.