Qualcomm has announced the 2023 Snapdragon Summit, which will take place October 24-26, and is expected to release the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip.
According to Weibo blogger @数码闲聊站, "The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip mobile phone will still debut in November." At present, the first models include Xiaomi 14 series, vivo X100 series, iQOO 12 series, Redmi K70 series, OnePlus 12, realme GT5 and so on. ”
In addition, it is reported that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip (SM8650) will introduce a "1+5+2" core configuration, which is different from the "1+2+2+3" setting of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, which indicates that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 may bring more powerful performance cores and higher frequencies.
Taking the UL Procyon AI score test as an example, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 integrated with Qualcomm Hexagon computing unit can achieve 5 times more performance than the Intel Core i5-1235U. Tests have shown that Intel's 12th-generation Core i5 processor's GPU unit is more suitable for AI-accelerated computing than the CPU. Qualcomm even boasted that the graphics performance of the Snapdragon 8CX Gen3 is stronger than the core graphics of the 12th generation low-voltage processor. It is reported that the ARM Windows notebooks that currently use the Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 include Surface Pro 9, ThinkPad X13s and so on.
Not only that, the new processor will also use TSMC N4P process, equipped with Cortex-X4 super large cores, 5 A720 cores, 2 A520 cores, Adreno 750 GPU. The running score is about 1.6 million, and the performance of GFX 3.1 exceeds 280fps. Compared with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the comprehensive performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is improved by about 20%, and GPU performance is increased by 27%.
As a benchmark product with the Snapdragon 8 Gen3, Dimensity 9300 will use TSMC N4P process, which is also a super-large core + large core + small core architecture, the super core is Cortex X4, the large core is Cortex A715, and the small core is A515. In terms of running scores, this processor has not yet had much news, but judging from the performance of the Dimensity 9200+, the Dimensity 9300 will not be too bad. It is reported that now Dimensity 9200+ is already the processor with the first Android running score, its CPU performance core has increased by 10%, the energy efficiency core has increased by 11%, and the Antutu running score is as high as 1.368 million points.
It is worth mentioning that the whistleblower Revegnus revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 in GeekBench 5, its single-core score falls between 1750 and 1800, and the multi-core score is between 6450 and 6500. This means that the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is only a single-core to catch up with the Apple A16, which is still a significant gap from the rumored A17's 2317 points. Of course, in terms of multi-core, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 easily surpasses the Apple A16.
Although in terms of time schedule, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 still has room for further tuning and improvement, but a very realistic situation is that Apple A17 will be manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 or stay at 4nm.