Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is said to be a step behind the A17 Pro because it is mass-produced using TSMC's N4P process rather than Taiwan's next-generation 3nm process. Regardless of that difference, Qualcomm's upcoming flagship chip is rumored to be 30% more efficient than the chip Apple is equipping in the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, but consuming less power usually means a compromise in performance.
Just recently, there were reports that Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 on AnTuTu might not be that much faster than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with just a 15% lead, but GPU testing showed an impressive 40% difference.巨大的差距只能意味着A17Pro可能很难与即将推出的SoC竞争，特别是在现实世界的图形和压力测试中。不过，Revegnus还指出，Snapdragon8Gen3的能效将比A17Pro高出30%。
虽然他没有提及这个信息是从哪里得到的，但我们在多个测试中看到，Snapdragon8Gen2相当全面地击败了A16Bionic。 This year, whistleblowers claim that the GPU performance gap will also widen, with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s Adreno 750 graphics processor said to have a 60% difference compared to the A17 Pro (Apple claims that its A17 Pro’s ray tracing performance is four times faster than the A16 Bionic). Unfortunately, the details are unclear, as it doesn't mention whether Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will take the lead in pure rasterization, ray tracing, or both.
In terms of power efficiency, Qualcomm may nerf the CPU performance of its upcoming SoCs to gain battery life advantages, as increasing the clock speed of the performance core may result in high power consumption and thus hit a power consumption wall or temperature wall.
There are reports that the A17 Pro consumes significantly more power this year, but this is likely to be intentional to create a meaningful difference from the A16 Bionic in terms of single-core and multi-core.显然，目前台积电3nm工艺量产的优势并不明显。