Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Chip Said to Cross 2 Million Mark in Benchmark Test

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip efficiency particulars have leaked on-line, weeks forward of the anticipated debut of the upcoming processor for flagship smartphones. This shouldn’t be the primary time that the upcoming cell chipset has been noticed in efficiency benchmark exams on-line, however the newest exams point out that the chip has surpassed the 2 million mark on the AnTuTu benchmark take a look at. The chipmaker is but to formally reveal particulars of the purported Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that’s anticipated to be unveiled on the upcoming Snapdragon Summit 2023 occasion later this month.

In a submit on Weibo, the Chinese microblogging web site, tipster Digital Chat Station (translated from Chinese) steered that there might be a major distinction in efficiency between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and its predecessor. The benchmark particulars crossed 2 million factors, the tipster claims. The CPU efficiency benchmark rating was over 440,000 factors, whereas the GPU was larger than 840,000 factors.

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For reference, the AnTuTu rating of final 12 months’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was round 1.6 million factors, with roughly 380,000 factors in the CPU take a look at, whereas the GPU rating was round 600,000 factors. The tipster additionally claims that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will function “self-developed GPU improvements”, which could clarify the larger soar in efficiency, in contrast to the CPU.

The purported rating of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is far increased than the earlier reported rating, which was 17,71,106 factors. At the time, the rating of the chipset was already increased than the highest three gadgets on the time — the iQoo Neo 8 Pro (1,358,352), Oppo Find X6 Pro (1,307,816), and OnePlus 11 5G (1,324,440).

The tipster notes that typical smartphone {hardware} was not used to run the benchmark take a look at — a prototype handset was utilised, comprising the brand new chip together with 16GB of LPDDR5T RAM and an enhanced model of 1TB of UFS 4.0 inbuilt storage.

Announced earlier this 12 months, LPDDR5T (Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo) RAM helps operations at a 9.6Gbps knowledge fee, 16 % quicker than LPDDR5X RAM. However, Digital Chat Station factors out that the gadgets that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 would possibly run subsequent are seemingly to function LPDDR5X RAM that can be accessible on present flagship smartphones, which suggests the benchmarks on future smartphones are unlikely to be as excessive as this prototype system.

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