Compared with the overclocked version of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the performance of Gen3 is improved by 13%, but the power consumption is increased by 28%.

So far, Snapdragon 8Gen3 has impressed people with its series of features, which mainly focus on improvements in CPU and GPU performance, as well as support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing, artificial intelligence, etc. However, for Qualcomm's latest SoC to gain a sizable advantage against Galaxy's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, it will have to increase its maximum power consumption, which in turn will have a negative impact on its efficiency. Let's take a look at the latest details and performance results.

Like Galaxy's Snapdragon 8Gen2, Snapdragon 8Gen3 also uses a single high-performance core, but this year Qualcomm has taken a different approach and increased the clock speed of all Cortex-A720 cores, which will help improve the multi-core performance of the SoC. Unfortunately, X netizen GoldenReviewer conducted the SPECint06 large-core benchmark test on Xiaomi 14Pro equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and found that although the latter scored 69.28 points, 13% higher than the 60.86 points of the overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, it came at the expense of greatly increased power consumption, with the latter's power consumption reaching 6.27 watts.

This number is 28% higher than the power consumption of the Galaxy 8th generation Snapdragon 2, with a maximum power consumption of 4.90 watts, and a higher performance score per watt than the Snapdragon 8Gen3.

As a result, the energy efficiency of the regular version of Snapdragon 8Gen2 is even higher than that of Snapdragon 8Gen3, which implies that Qualcomm's insistence on using TSMC's 4-nanometer "N4P" process this year may have reached its limit and has to increase power consumption to make up for the performance difference. These changes can lead to increased temperatures, rapidly shortening battery life, and other negative factors.