Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro and OnePlus 13 battery tests reveal promising results
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile platform last month at the annual Snapdragon Summit, and brands like Xiaomi, OnePlus, Realme and Asus released phones with the new processor inside following the chipmaker’s announcement. It is built on TSMC’s 3nm process technology and is said to offer a 44 percent improved energy efficiency compared to its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. Now, early testing with two of the first devices to use the chip has revealed some significant improvements in battery life.
YouTuber Dave2D posted a video with insights on the battery life and performance of Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro and OnePlus 13. Both models run on the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite chip and are compared to their predecessors in the video. The Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro and OnePlus 13 have a 5,800 mAh and 6,000 mAh battery respectively, while their predecessors were equipped with 5,500 mAh (ROG Phone 8) and 5,400 mAh (OnePlus 12) batteries.
The video notes that the Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro’s battery life rose to 14.29 hours, compared to the ROG Phone 8 Pro’s 11 hours (with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) in the PCMark battery test. Likewise, the OnePlus 13’s battery lasted 17.25 hours in the same test, compared to 12.13 hours offered by the OnePlus 12 (with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3). The tests show a significant improvement in battery life over previous generation phones and the YouTuber attributes the improvements to the new Snapdragon chip.
He also ran a few more tests that highlighted the performance potential of the new chip. On Genshin Impact, the ROG Phone 9 Pro offered nearly five hours of battery life, while its predecessor managed up to 3.42 hours.
Likewise, the OnePlus 13’s battery life is impressive at 5.39 hours with Genshin Impact, while the OnePlus 12 only lasted 3.51 hours. In his video, Dave2D says that the Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC is power efficient and offers long battery life, in addition to battery health.
At the launch event, Qualcomm claimed a 44 percent improvement in power efficiency for the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip over its predecessor. It is also promised to deliver up to 45 percent better CPU performance and up to 40 percent better GPU performance. The mobile platform features an Oryon CPU with a custom eight-core structure with prime cores clocked at 4.32 GHz and performance cores with a peak frequency of 3.53 GHz.
