Leaked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Slide Reveals A 30 Percent Faster CPU, GPU 25 Percent More Efficient, 8K Gaming Possibilities With Upscaling, More
The Snapdragon Summit is only a couple of days away, but that has not stopped a detailed specifications and features leak of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, revealing the improvements […] Written by Omar Sohail
The Snapdragon Summit is only a couple of days away, but that has not stopped a detailed specifications and features leak of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, revealing the improvements compared to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, along with a plethora of advantages for Android smartphones and tablets in multiple categories. The chipset maker has also invested heavily in GPU upscaling this time, making it possible to play games at the 8K resolution while also supporting visual additions such as global illumination and ray tracing.
New specifications leak reveals a myriad of improvements across several categories with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Coming to the CPU and GPU improvements first, MSPowerUser showed off a leaked press slide, highlighting that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 sports a ‘1 + 5 + 2’ CPU cluster and is mass produced on the 4nm process. The CPU is said to be 30 percent faster and 20 percent more power efficient, but the slide does not reveal if these gains are when the new SoC is compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or the one before. As for the Adreno 750 GPU, the slide shows that it is 25 percent more powerful and efficient than the previous generation.
The leak also reveals that Qualcomm is taking smartphone gaming seriously and has equipped the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with support for Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen, along with the company’s Snapdragon Game Super Resolution, which can upscale up to 8K. It is also possible to experience 240FPS on a 240Hz display thanks to Qualcomm’s Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.0, though the number of games that are playable at these framerates is not mentioned in the slide.
There is also on-device AI support, with more than 10 billion parameters, and the Hexagon NPU is 98 percent faster than 40 percent more efficient than the previous iteration. Not surprisingly, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is integrated with Qualcomm’s next-generation 5G modem, enabling 10Gbps downlink speeds and 3.5Gbps uplink. The SoC is also Wi-Fi 7-ready and can reach 5.8Gbps, though readers should be reminded that these are maximum throughput speeds and will not necessarily be provided by the service you have subscribed to.
A gallery of specification slides revealing the maximum memory support, camera, display, and other details has been shared above, so make sure you take a look at them, too. One interesting addition we noticed right at the end was the USB version, which was 3.1 Gen 2, which has a maximum bandwidth of 10Gbps, just like the A17 Pro’s USB controller. This upgrade means that Android flagships that feature the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and support the aforementioned specification can be hooked up to an external monitor for gaming purposes, just like the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.
This is perhaps one of the biggest pre-launch leaks we have ever stumbled across for a smartphone chipset, and even though Qualcomm was not the one to officially reveal these details, these details show that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can potentially be an absolute unit of an SoC.
