Really surpassing Apple A16? Currently, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 performance has improved by 17%
As a very important processor supplier for domestic Android phones, Qualcomm has won many battles with MediaTek, but has not won much in the competition with Apple's A-series chips. Even the current Snapdragon 8 Gen2 is difficult to change, and according to the latest news, Qualcomm's new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 seems to break this situation today!
Samsung and MediaTek have performed poorly in terms of flagship chips. Although Apple has always been leading, it seems that Qualcomm will now have a chip that completely surpasses Apple's latest flagship SoC A16 Bionic - the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
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Last year, Qualcomm released three flagship chips for the Snapdragon 8 series. This year, it seems that the situation will be different. It looks like there won't be Snapdragon 8+Gen 2. The company will directly release the more advanced Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Although the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is based on TSMC's N4P (4 nanometers) process, technology blogger @ Tech Rever reports that the main frequency has actually skyrocketed to 3.75GHz. This is 17% higher than the current standard version of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. But the CPU architecture it provides includes a built-in Adreno 750 GPU, a Cortex-X4 ultra large core, five Cortex-A720 large cores, a Cortex-A520 small core, and an X75 5G baseband.
Recently, a major mobile device testing tool called Geekbench released the so-called Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 score< The multi core score is as high as 6236 points, while the single core score is 1930. This score is very impressive because it easily became the best mobile phone chip. These results are much higher than previous predictions; Previous rumors suggested a single core score of 1800 and a multi core score of 6100. These results show a 30% improvement in single core performance and a 20% improvement in multi-core performance. Compared to the current generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the latter has a single core score of 1491 and a multi-core score of 5164.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 adopts a core layout of 1+5+2, which is one of its main advantages. This array means that the chip has a high-performance core, five intermediate cores, and two efficiency cores. This is different from the previous 1+4+3 settings. This new layout ensures that the chip has better power. In addition, there are reports that using this array, the energy consumption ofchips will be 20% less than that of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chips. The N4P process node of TSMC may also be used, which will improve the efficiency of the chip.
Even if some optimistic rumors and scores leak out, we still need to be cautious with this information. Currently, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is in the engineering sample stage. Developers may test their performance capabilities by pushing the chip to its limit. The performance of the final product may differ from the leakage score. The company may need to reduce or increase the performance of the chip.
This wave is possible. Currently, the performance improvement of the third generation Snapdragon 8 seems to be greater than the previous generation. Although it is not yet certain how it compares with Apple's A-series chips, it is at least more promising to surpass the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Let's watch Qualcomm's performance quietly!
