Realme today made the leap from dual-camera phones straight to quad-cameras. The Chinese giant not only launched its first-ever set of quad-camera phones but also gave users the most affordable quad-camera phone. Yes, Realme 5 is the cheapest device to feature four rear cameras but that’s not all. It’s also the first smartphone to debut with Snapdragon 665 chipset in tow.

  • AnTuTu Benchmark

Snapdragon 665 comes as a minor refinement of the Snapdragon 660, so one obviously expects the former to trump the latter on paper. This, however, isn’t true as the AnTuTu score of the Realme 5 is lower than that of the Redmi Note 7S. And the difference is not just of a few hundred points but instead thousands of points, which makes me question Qualcomm’s intentions for releasing the Snapdragon 665. Snapdragon 660 (L) vs Snapdragon 665 (R)

AnTuTu Benchmark

GeekBench 4

Snapdragon 665 may be built on the advanced 11nm process node, but it uses the same Kryo 260 cores and the lower clock speed doesn’t seem to be doing wonders for it. You’ll most likely get the same performance out of the Snapdragon 665-powered Realme 5 as any other Snapdragon 660-backed smartphone. The raw processing power for these two chipsets is quite comparable on paper, as you can see right here:

  • 3DMark

The streak of surprises doesn’t end there. I thought the Adreno 610 GPU on Snapdragon 665 chipset would surely be more powerful than the Adreno 512 GPU on the Snapdragon 660 chipset. However, that wasn’t the case when we ran the 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme on the Redmi Note 7S and Realme 5. The former appears to handle a graphics-intensive task better than the latter, which is a bummer, to be honest. Snapdragon 660 (L) vs Snapdragon 665 (R)

3DMark

Realme 5: Gaming Performance

In the brief time that I spent with the Realme 5, the smartphone felt a little lackluster on the performance front. Snapdragon 665 feels breezy for daily use and I didn’t notice any stutters while testing out the smartphones – both the Realme 5 and Mi A3. Moving to the gaming front, well, there seems to be something wrong with PUBG Mobile or Snapdragon 665 as the game assumes low graphics setting by default. But in reality, it does not.