Qualcomm just announced a brand new chipset – the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 – but it’s not what you expect. It’s not better than the current highest-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 that we have, but it’s more like a “minus” version. It’s an in-between of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and 8 Gen 3, but I’d argue it’s much closer to the 8 Gen 3.
The new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is also fabricated by TSMC’s 4nm process, and we expect great efficiency from this chip too.
As a quick introduction, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 offers on-device generative AI, photography, and promises great gaming experience too. There are a few major brand partners that will use this chip in their upcoming phones – including HONOR, iQOO, Realme, Redmi, and Xiaomi just to name a few. The first device using the 8s Gen 3 is expected to be announced in March as well.
The new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is using the Snapdragon X70 5G cellular modem, and it also has the Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 mobile connectivity for WiFi. On the specs sheet, it did say that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 will support WiFi 7 as well, but I think it’s up to the smartphone manufacturer to enable or disable this feature.
Moreover, it will also sport triple ISPs for phones with multi-cameras so we can switch between cameras seamlessly.
This chip is meant to bring flagship-level performance to a lower price range but I wonder how much more affordable it’ll be, given that the performance is so near the flagship-level 8 Gen 3.
Now, what’s the difference between the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 when compared to the 8 Gen 2 and 8 Gen 3? Well… the details aren’t exactly clear. What we know is that it is using this set of CPU.
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has these CPUs and GPU:
- Triple-cluster CPU
- 1x Prime core
- 3.0GHz Arm Cortex-X4
- 4x performance cores up to 2.8GHz
- 3x efficiency cores up to 2.0GHz
- 1x Prime core
The GPU is unspecified as the specs sheet that we have only states “Qualcomm Adreno GPU”. The same goes to the NPU too, as the specs sheet just says “Qualcomm Hexagon NPU”.
We can speculate that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 might be much more efficient than the 8 Gen 3 as it comes with one less performance core and one more efficiency core, while all the clock speeds are lower. While that might also affect the performance – but we can also expect less heat while pushing the chip to its limit.
Again, this is the only information that we have. I’m not going to be bothered by the specs much as I am more concerned about how the performance will be when we eventually get Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 phones to review. Stay tuned to our gaming tests when it eventually comes out.
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