Qualcomm has previously announced that the 2023 Snapdragon Summit will be held from October 24th to 26th, when it is expected to release the long-awaited new generation of Snapdragon 8Gen3 chip. Recently, a whistleblower published an internal document from Qualcomm. According to the document,Although the Snapdragon 8Gen3 chips are all produced by TSMC, there will be two different versions, 4nm and 3nm.. In fact, TSMC announced the mass production of the 3nm process as early as last year, but the cost of N3 is too high and the production capacity is relatively low. Samsung's move may also be related to this factor.
Although the specifications of the two versions are exactly the same, we can still expect that the 3nm version will surpass the 4nm version in terms of energy efficiency.
The document also shows that it is expected to be used in laptops and tabletsSnapdragon 8Gen3 will adopt a 2+4+2 design, including 2 CortexX4 ultra-large cores, four CortexA720 performance cores and two CortexA520 energy-saving cores.
Some bloggers have previously exposed the latest performance data of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8Gen3. According to the test results,Snapdragon 8Gen3 scored 15,434 points in the Geekbench6Vulkan test, an increase of nearly 50% compared to the second-generation product’s 10,447 points..
If you look at this running score, the performance of Snapdragon 8Gen3 is indeed far superior to that of A17Pro. After all, the current second-generation Snapdragon 8 can compete with it.
In addition to powerful performance,Snapdragon 8Gen3 also has excellent AI capabilities. The latest Hexagon processor is used to efficiently handle AI tasks. Whether it is speech recognition, image processing or natural language processing, Snapdragon 8Gen3 can handle it easily.
It is unclear how Qualcomm will release these two versions of the chip. Will it be released in stages like Snapdragon 8Gen1 and Snapdragon 8+Gen1, or will it be released at the same time?