Qualcomm quietly ships a cut down Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in a fancy name ⓘ Qualcomm The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V series A closer look at Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 V Series spec sheet shows the chip drops one Adreno GPU slice and trims cache versus the standard chip, landing its graphics performance closer to the non-Elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. That 2-slice count puts the V Series at the same GPU scale as the non-Elite Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, which ships with a 2-slice Adreno 829, clocked slightly higher at around 1.225GHz. The V Series also carries just 12MB of Adreno High Performance Memory, down from 18MB on the standard 8 Elite Gen 5, though still 10MB ahead of the 8 Gen 5's 2MB cache. Other specs on the V Series match the standard 8 Elite Gen 5. The 8 Elite Gen 5 V Series mark Qualcomm's first confirmed GPU-binned tier for the 8 Elite Gen 5 family: Elite-class CPU, NPU, and modem, but a GPU dialed back to sub-flagship scale.