Yesterday, Qualcomm officially unveiled its new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platform, which will be the hardware backbone of many top-end smartphones for the 2024 model year.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, which is manufactured using a 4nm process technology, received 8 cores divided into three clusters – one super-powerful Arm Cortex-X4 core with a frequency of up to 3.3 GHz, five high-performance Cortex-A720 cores with a frequency of up to 3.2 GHz and two energy-efficient Cortex-A520 cores with a frequency of up to 2.3 GHz.
The processor unit’s cache memory is 12 MB compared to 8 MB for the previous Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 model, and the final performance of the latest platform, according to Qualcomm, has increased by 30% with a 20% improvement in energy efficiency.
The Adreno 750 graphics controller is now 25% faster and 25% more energy efficient than its predecessor and is capable of working with 144-hertz screens with a resolution of up to qHD+, in 4K@60 Hz mode and in conjunction with external monitors with a resolution of up to 8K.
In addition, hardware ray tracing has improved by 40% and received support for the Global Illumination standard, and the chip itself will be the first to support the Unreal Engine 5.2, which will allow Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 smartphones to approach consoles in terms of gaming capabilities.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 also supports LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 flash drives, cameras with a resolution of up to 200 MP with the ability to record 8K video at 30fps, the Snapdragon X75 5G modem and the Snapdragon FastConnect 7800 module, which includes Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, are responsible for mobile communication.
By the way, Qualcomm’s presentation was attended by Xiaomi CEO Lu Weibing, who confirmed that the first smartphones on the new chip will be the Xiaomi 14 Xiaomi 14 Pro, which is scheduled to premiere on October 26.