Qualcomm will introduce its next premium chip for smartphones compared to previous years. The Snapdragon Summit will be held in October this year. Here you can find out what is already known about Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
In the Galaxy S23 series (test: S23 Ultra), the dream of many Samsung fans in Europe has finally come true: for the first time in years, the South Korean manufacturer has not installed an Exynos SoC, but the current Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship S series. So smartphones have a pot Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 “For Galaxy”, which is an overclocked version of the regular processor. Unlike the standard version, the Cortex-X3 Prime core clocks at 3.36 GHz instead of 3.2 GHz, the Adreno 740 graphics unit is also slightly higher.
Now this version may be due to Qualcomm this year No plus variant According to a leaker on published Chinese social media forum Weibo, it should launch the next SoC instead. Accordingly, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 may already be there October 2023 To be announced. New chips are usually presented at the Qualcomm Summit in December.
New configuration and new 5G modem
As of now, the upcoming SoC will use a different layout from the previous models. Apparently, the chip, codenamed “Lanai,” will point to one again 1+4+3 configuration Nothing is known about the possible increase in performance compared to the set Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. According to the first leak, the new Cortex-X4 Prime-Kern However, the performance and with allow a fairly large jump Clocked up to 3.7+ GHz (which sounds crazy)
On paper, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 should also beat the upcoming Apple A17 Bionic in terms of clock frequency. Qualcomm is also likely to install the recently launched Snapdragon X75, which is said to be more efficient than previous 5G modems.
As usual, these rumors should be treated with caution. It’s exciting to see if Samsung can rely on an adapted “for Galaxy” variant in the future. At least the manufacturer thinks so The next two years Only to install Qualcomm chips in flagships. Recently there were only rumors that Samsung might equip the Galaxy S23 FE with an Exynos.
up to date [24.03.23]: New configuration and “titanium” core?
Most reliable tipster Kuba Wojciechowski has new details Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 “SM8650” is revealed, which is significantly different from previous data. Accordingly, Qualcomm will no longer rely on the well-known 1+4+4 configuration, instead it should be a 1+2+2+3-cluster The biggest change to offer concerns the power-saving cores, of which there should only be two. However, there will be more high-performance cores, which should primarily result in higher multi-core performance. According to the leaker, a combination of “Gold+” and “Titanium” cores will be used, with the “Gold+” possibly a Cortex-X4.
- 1x Hunter “Gold+” Core (Cortex-X4)
- 2x Hunter “Titanium”-core (Cortex-A7xx)
- 3x Hunter “Gold”-core (Cortex-A7xx)
- 2x Hayes “Silver”-core (Cortex-A5xx)
So far we don’t know what happened “Hunter” and “Hyse” core is on its own. ARM will likely introduce these cores in more detail over the course of the year. It is at least clear from Wojciechowski’s thread that the cores will be fully 64-bit. Additionally, the upcoming flagship SoC will have a new Adreno 750 GPU, which should be clocked up to 700 MHz. The chip is apparently still being developed TSMC on the N4 process.
up to date [02.06.2023]: Snapdragon Summit date fixed
Qualcomm has now officially announced that this year Snapdragon Summit October 24-26 To be held on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The company has been introducing the new Snapdragon 8 chip in Hawaii for years, usually in December. The event took place last November, this time earlier than usual. The corresponding smartphones should appear in China before the end of the year. Qualcomm will likely rely on the new ARM v9.2 architecture for CPU cores. The Summit teaser has already hinted at a Snapdragon smartphone chip and will likely focus on artificial intelligence and the Orion notebook chip.
up to date [15.08.2023]: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 should be significantly more expensive
It won’t be long before the new smartphone SoC is officially presented. However, a new leak is now raising concerns about the prices of new smartphones with Qualcomm chips. According to a Chinese Weibo user Digital Chat Station he should Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is significantly more expensive Although the leaker does not give any specific figures, the statement alone does not give hope for the prices of the upcoming flagship smartphones. In general, information should appear again and again that Qualcomm has significantly increased the price of its chips. This is also likely the reason why Samsung may once again rely on an in-house Exynos chip with the Galaxy S24.
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