Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was (*8*)launched by Qualcomm earlier this week as the firm’s latest flagship cell processor. We can count on the new chipset to function on flagship smartphones that can debut in the coming weeks and months — beginning with the Xiaomi 14 that might be launched in China on Thursday. According to Qualcomm, the new octa-core chip will provide a 30 % enhance in efficiency and a 20 % enchancment in energy effectivity over its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Now, benchmarks of the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 have been revealed by the chipmaker, giving us an thought of the way it fares towards current smartphones.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is an octa-core cell processor comprising an Arm Cortex-X4 Prime core at a peak clock velocity of 3.3GHz, three Cortex-A720 efficiency cores at 3.2GHz and two Cortex-A720 cores at 3GHz, together with two Cortex-A520 effectivity cores at 2.3GHz. It is a 4nm processor, in contrast to Apple’s newest A17 Bionic chip that’s fabricated utilizing TSMC’s 3nm course of expertise.
The chipmaker revealed on Thursday that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 scores between 2,320 and a couple of,229 factors on the Geekbench 6 single-core benchmark take a look at. This determine is larger than the rating of almost each different Android smartphone presently obtainable, together with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, OnePlus 11, and (*15*)Google Pixel 8 Pro. However, Qualcomm’s new chip lags behind the iPhone 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro Max, that rating round 2,600 and a couple of,900 factors, respectively.
However, in the multi-core Geekbench 6 benchmark take a look at, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 scores between 7,439 and seven,526 factors. This locations the new smartphone chip forward of the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which has decrease scores (round 7,200 factors) and iPhone 15 Plus (round 6,400 factors). Other handsets powered by final 12 months’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip rating have even decrease multi-core benchmark scores, properly underneath the 6,000-point mark.
In the AnTuTu benchmark take a look at, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 scored between 2.13 million and a couple of.14 million factors — this rating is larger than each single smartphone launched by smartphone makers with the Snapdragon Gen 2 chipset — together with the iQoo 11 (16 million factors), Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (15.2 million factors), Xiaomi 13 Pro (15.3 million factors), and OnePlus 11 (15 million factors).
It is value noting that these benchmark scores are from Qualcomm’s reference machine, a smartphone that’s powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip paired with 24GB LPDDR5x RAM at 4.8GHz and 512GB of UFS 4 storage. The reference machine has a 6.65-inch full-HD (1,080×2,340 pixels) AMOLED show with a 144Hz refresh charge and packs a 4,192mAh battery. We ought to can count on to see extra benchmarks from handsets operating the new chip in the coming weeks and months, beginning with the Xiaomi 14 that might be launched in China on Thursday.
